How to fix log4j:WARN console messages when running an Application inside IntelliJ Idea Follow

Created May 07, 2013 19:59

I have noticed the appearance of some log4j warnings when I was running a simple spring application.
These messages are like this :

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

To fix that just enter the following log4j.resources file into main/resources folder of your project :

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

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

# A1 uses PatternLayout.
log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n

Of course this is a fix that can be applied to the next IntelliJ IDE version, so that the user is not faced with these annoying errors.

Update : If you want to just supress the error messsages use the following line in your starting class

Logger.getRootLogger().setLevel(Level.OFF);

7 comments

Yann Cebron

Created May 07, 2013 20:15

Could you post full command-line incl. classpath of your application console? Why do you think this is caused by IntelliJ IDEA? Thanks.

Stavros Kefaleas

Created May 07, 2013 20:26

Of course.
Here it goes.

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Didea.launcher.port=7537 "-Didea.launcher.bin.path=/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 12.app/bin" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/ant-javafx.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/dt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/javafx-doclet.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/javafx-mx.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/jconsole.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/sa-jdi.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/tools.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/htmlconverter.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jce.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jfxrt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/JObjC.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/management-agent.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/plugin.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/resources.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/zipfs.jar:/Users/Administrator/IdeaProjects/SimpleSpring6/target/classes:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-core/3.2.0.RELEASE/spring-core-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-context/3.2.0.RELEASE/spring-context-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-aop/3.2.0.RELEASE/spring-aop-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/aopalliance/aopalliance/1.0/aopalliance-1.0.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.2.0.RELEASE/spring-beans-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-expression/3.2.0.RELEASE/spring-expression-3.2.0.RELEASE.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.7.2/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-api/1.7.2/slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar:/Users/Administrator/.m2/repository/log4j/log4j/1.2.17/log4j-1.2.17.jar:/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 12.app/lib/idea_rt.jar" com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain foo.bar.HelloApp

Yann Cebron

Created May 07, 2013 20:31

AFAIU the message was caused by missing log4.xml, which according to

http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig

is the expected behaviour (user must provide explicit configuration for logging to work).

Stavros Kefaleas

Created May 07, 2013 20:37

You can still add the above mentioned properties file to your next version as a simple default behavior configuration for log4j
In my case I tried to used commons logging but it seems that it is a simple wrapper abstract utility that uses log4j.

Yann Cebron

Created May 07, 2013 20:40

IMHO we cannot predict user's needs (some people might even prefer no logging at all when starting from IDE), so the current way of manual/explicit configuration seems the most useful to me.

Dmitry Kolesnikovich

Created January 10, 2017 10:01

it works for me, thank you

Satya461

Created April 10, 2018 17:44

For me it worked when the file is named as "log4j.properties" instead of "log4j.resources" in main/resources/ folder of project.

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