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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:13:11 +0100
From: Guillaume Nodet <guillaume.nodet@worldonline.fr>
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Subject: Re: [IDE malarkey] dealing with log4j in your IDE versus Maven
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In ServiceMix, i solved the problem by specifying another log4j 
configuration that is used in maven only.

Just add the following lines in the project.properties
  maven.junit.sysproperties=log4j.configuration
  log4j.configuration=log4j-tests.properties

and magically, maven tests will be run using log4j-tests.properties and 
the IDE will use default log4j.properties.

Guillaume


James Strachan wrote:

> This might be completely obvious to everyone - but I just thought I'd  
> explain what I've just started doing with my IDE and I wished I'd  
> done this a long long time ago...
>
> So ActiveMQ uses log4j.properties on the classpath (usually in  
> $module/src/test/resources/). By default the logging level is INFO  
> and it goes to a log file so that when you run the maven build it  
> doesn't fill the screen with lots of garbage. (Incidentally some  
> tests are timing sensitive, so setting logging level to DEBUG will  
> often cause some tests to fail as debug logging slows things down so  
> much)
>
> However when running stuff in your IDE - e.g. working on a specific  
> test case or program, you often want output to the console so you see  
> it nicely in your IDE. Often you want debug too.
>
> So for the longest time I've been hacking, say, the activemq-core/src/ 
> test/resources/log4j.properties file for IDE use to enable stdout /  
> DEBUG; then having to remember to switch it back when doing  
> subversion commits etc.
>
> I'm sure somewhere there's a great log4j plugin to eclipse that  
> actually works well (I've tried a few plugins for IDEs over the years  
> and never managed to get them to work well); but as a quick hack I  
> created a new project called IDE which just contains stuff to put on  
> the classpath when running stuff in your IDE; so added a  
> log4j.properties for IDE use. Then I added this as the first  
> dependency in the ActiveMQ project and voila - no more hack-revert of  
> the log4j.properties in the maven build; I can keep the 2 separate.
>
> Totally trivial and obvious - and I'm sure some ecilpse plugin  
> somewhere solves this better - but its well worth doing something  
> like this if you hack on the ActiveMQ code a fair bit.
>
> James
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> http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
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