// I set up a ConsoleAppender in Log4J to format Stdout/Stderr
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, CONSOLE
log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=[%t] %-5p %c - %m%n
// And I call this StdOutErrLog.tieSystemOutAndErrToLog() on startup
public class StdOutErrLog {
private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(StdOutErrLog.class);
public static void tieSystemOutAndErrToLog() {
System.setOut(createLoggingProxy(System.out));
System.setErr(createLoggingProxy(System.err));
}
public static PrintStream createLoggingProxy(final PrintStream realPrintStream) {
return new PrintStream(realPrintStream) {
public void print(final String string) {
realPrintStream.print(string);
logger.info(string);
}
};
}
}