Question

I have a servlet. But it is not working as desired. Hence for debugging purposes, I want to print statements to the java console(the one that can be opened using the java icon in taskbar). However, if I use System.out.println(“message”), it doesnt display in java console.

Is there any alternative way where I can display messages to the console from the servlet?
Or can anyone suggest me an alternative way to display messages to any other console?

Answer 1

In which console do you expect it to appear?

Depending on the servlet container (I assume Tomcat), the logs are stored in a logs folder. For Tomcat this is tomcat/logs (or more often referred to as CATALINA_HOME/logs). If you are running it from within an IDE – they should be in the IDE console.

As a sidenote, using System.out isn’t advisable for a real product – use a logging framework (like log4j).