[gatein-dev] GateIn logging

I have been improving a bit our logging structure in Tomcat to have a single file containing all GateIn debug and above statement in a single specific file. You can find this file in tomcat/gatein/logs/, it is useful when developing GateIn as you can read it via a "tail -f". This is configured in tomcat/conf/logging.properties and is quite easy to configure and it is also part of JDK logging, here is what was addded: org.exoplatform.level = FINE org.exoplatform.handlers = 6gatein.org.apache.juli.FileHandler org.gatein.level = FINE org.gatein.handlers = 6gatein.org.apache.juli.FileHandler Those lines say that all debug level will fo in the gatein file handler which is configured: 6gatein.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = FINE 6gatein.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory = ${catalina.base}/ gatein/logs 6gatein.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = gatein I also resolved that task GTNPORTAL-502 (Remove println messages from java files) and removed the existing System.out.println in GateIn codebase, except for the commented system out. Here are the important facts to remember: 1/ it is EASY to reconfigure logging for your needs, just modify the logging.properties file and create a new file or update the existing one to filter what you don't want 2/ If you do need to uncomment an existing commented System.out, use GateIn Logger instead and chose the appropriate level (usually DEBUG) it is very important to do that carefully. 3/ if you need to add debugging info, do as explained in 2/ 4/ if you don't like JDK logging you can easily switch to another logging framework by removing the slf4j simple jar and putting the appropriate binding for slf4j happy loggin!