Question

Netbeans thoughtfully sprinkles Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getName()).log(Level. […] statements into catch blocks. Now I would like to point them all to a file (and to console).

Every logging tutorial and such only me tells how to get a specific logger to output into a file, but I assume there is a better way than fixing every automatically generated logging statement? Setting a handler for some sort of root logger or something?

Answer 1

I just add the following at startup

Handler handler = new FileHandler('test.log', LOG_SIZE, LOG_ROTATION_COUNT); Logger.getLogger('').addHandler(handler); 

You can specify your own values for LOG_SIZE and LOG_ROTATION_COUNT

You may need adjust the logging level to suit.