How to get SLF4J “Hello World” working with log4j?

Question

The "Hello World" example from SLF4J is not working for me. I guess this is because I added slf4j-log4 to my classpath. Should I configure log4j directly for the hello world to work?

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (HelloWorld).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

Update: I added log4j initialization, and it still doesn't work:

public static void main(String[] params) {
        org.apache.log4j.Logger.getRootLogger().addAppender(new ConsoleAppender());
        Logger logger = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(TestBase.class);
        logger.info("Hello World");
    }

And I'm getting:

log4j:ERROR No output stream or file set for the appender named [null].

Answer 1

you need to add 3 dependency ( API+ API implementation + log4j dependency) 
Add also this 
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.5</version>
</dependency>

# And to see log in command line , set log4j.properties 

# Root logger option
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, file, stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

#And to see log in file  , set log4j.properties 
# Direct log messages to a log file
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.File=./logs/logging.log
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

Answer 2

If you want to use slf4j simple, you need these jar files on your classpath:

• slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
• slf4j-simple-1.6.1.jar

If you want to use slf4j and log4j, you need these jar files on your classpath:

• slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar
• slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar
• log4j-1.2.16.jar

No more, no less. Using slf4j simple, you'll get basic logging to your console at INFO level or higher. Using log4j, you must configure it accordingly.

Answer 3

Following is an example. You can see the details http://jkssweetlife.com/configure-slf4j-working-various-logging-frameworks/ and download the full codes here.

• Add following dependency to your pom if you are using maven, otherwise, just download the jar files and put on your classpath

  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
      <version>1.7.7</version>
  </dependency>
  
  <dependency>
      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
      <version>1.7.7</version>
  </dependency>
  

• Configure log4j.properties

  log4j.rootLogger=TRACE, stdout
  log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
  log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
  log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
  log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p [%c] - %m%n
  

• Java example

  public class Slf4jExample {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
  
          Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Slf4jExample.class);
  
          final String message = "Hello logging!";
          logger.trace(message);
          logger.debug(message);
          logger.info(message);
          logger.warn(message);
          logger.error(message);
      }
  }
  

Answer 4

I had the same problem. I called my own custom logger in the log4j.properties file from code when using log4j api directly. If you are using the slf4j api calls, you are probably using the default root logger so you must configure that to be associated with an appender in the log4j.properties:

    # Set root logger level to DEBUG and its only appender to A1.
    log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, A1

    # A1 is set to be a ConsoleAppender.
    log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender