/** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import javax.jms.Connection; import javax.jms.Message; import javax.jms.MessageConsumer; import javax.jms.MessageListener; import javax.jms.Session; import org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory; import org.apache.activemq.command.ActiveMQObjectMessage; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import org.apache.log4j.spi.LoggingEvent; /** * A simple example of log4j jms appender in conjuction with ActiveMQ */ public class Log4jJMSAppenderExample implements MessageListener { public Log4jJMSAppenderExample() throws Exception { // create a logTopic topic consumer ActiveMQConnectionFactory factory = new ActiveMQConnectionFactory("tcp://localhost:61616"); Connection conn = factory.createConnection(); Session sess = conn.createSession(false, Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); conn.start(); MessageConsumer consumer = sess.createConsumer(sess.createTopic("logTopic")); consumer.setMessageListener(this); // log a message Logger log = Logger.getLogger(Log4jJMSAppenderExample.class); log.info("Test log"); // clean up Thread.sleep(1000); consumer.close(); sess.close(); conn.close(); System.exit(1); } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { new Log4jJMSAppenderExample(); } public void onMessage(Message message) { try { // receive log event in your consumer LoggingEvent event = (LoggingEvent)((ActiveMQObjectMessage)message).getObject(); System.out.println("Received log [" + event.getLevel() + "]: "+ event.getMessage()); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }