There is a Logger element which you can use to create ur own log messages.



U can choose three ways of outputting



1)Log messages written to file



2)Log messages written to standard error stream



3)Log messages written to standard output stream




Lets look at configuring logger for file




timestamp="true"/>




This logger tag can be put under Engine tag in server.xml



or it can be put under Host tag in server.xml




Here u can change the prefix and suffix to what ever



suitable also optionally u have one more attribute called




directory where u can specify the directory name to place



the log files for this relative or absolute path may be



used wrt CATALINA_HOME