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Logging in Tomcat

Logging relevant application details at runtime is a practice that has been followed since the early days of programming. Before debuggers were available, reading log statements was the only way to find out what was going on with an application at runtime. Even with all the debugging tools available today, log statements are still an invaluable tool for monitoring production systems and diagnosing any problems that occur on the deployed application.

In this chapter, we are going to take a look at the logging options available in Tomcat, for both Tomcat internal logging and logging in individual web application. We will cover following topics:

  • Introduce the Java Logging framework and its Tomcat version JULI ...

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