Log4j Plugin

This plugin is just a wrapper for the apache log4j system. It uses version 1.2.14.

Each plugin has its own logger.properties file for configuration. It typically looks like this :

log4j.rootCategory=, editorFileLogger

log4j.appender.editorFileLogger=org.asdt.tools.PluginFileAppender
log4j.appender.editorFileLogger.File=asdtEditor.log
log4j.appender.editorFileLogger.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.editorFileLogger.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n

log4j.appender.editorPluginLogger=org.asdt.tools.PluginLogAppender
log4j.appender.editorPluginLogger.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.editorPluginLogger.layout.ConversionPattern=%p %t %c - %m%n

log4j.logger.org.asdt.editor=, editorPluginLogger

The PluginLogAppender is a special appender provided by the org.asdt.tools plugin which sends log statements to the PDE Error log view.