Logger moved to prefs so that class not found error can be handled in main

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / bin / Jalview.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java b/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
index e780f78..9a85471 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/Jalview.java
@@ -37,28 +37,6 @@ import java.util.Vector;
  */\r
 public class Jalview\r
 {\r
-    /**\r
-     * Initialises the Apache Axis logger\r
-     */\r
-    public static Logger log;\r
-    private static void initLogger()\r
-    {\r
-        Logger laxis = Logger.getLogger("org.apache.axis");\r
-        Logger lcastor = Logger.getLogger("org.exolab.castor");\r
-        log = Logger.getLogger("jalview.bin.Jalview");\r
-\r
-        laxis.setLevel(Level.toLevel(Cache.getDefault("logs.Axis.Level", Level.INFO.toString())));\r
-        lcastor.setLevel(Level.toLevel(Cache.getDefault("logs.Castor.Level", Level.INFO.toString())));\r
-        log.setLevel(Level.toLevel(Cache.getDefault("logs.Jalview.level", Level.INFO.toString())));\r
-\r
-        ConsoleAppender ap = new ConsoleAppender(new SimpleLayout(),\r
-                "System.err");\r
-        ap.setName("JalviewLogger");\r
-\r
-        laxis.addAppender(ap);\r
-        lcastor.addAppender(ap);\r
-        log.addAppender(ap);\r
-    }\r
 \r
     /**\r
      * main class for Jalview application\r
@@ -110,17 +88,20 @@ public class Jalview
             headless = true;\r
           }\r
 \r
-        Cache.loadProperties(aparser.getValue("props"));\r
-\r
-        try\r
-        {\r
-          initLogger();\r
-        }\r
-        catch (Exception e)\r
-        {\r
-          System.err.println("Problems initializing the log4j system\n");\r
-        }\r
+          try\r
+          {\r
+            Cache.initLogger();\r
+          }\r
+          catch (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError error)\r
+          {\r
+            error.printStackTrace();\r
+            System.out.println(\r
+                "\nEssential logging libraries not found."\r
+                +"\nUse: java -Djava.ext.dirs=$PATH_TO_LIB$ jalview.bin.Jalview");\r
+            System.exit(0);\r
+          }\r
 \r
+        Cache.loadProperties(aparser.getValue("props"));\r
 \r
         Desktop desktop = null;\r
         if( !headless )\r