Log in ServletContext
// web.xml /* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> <servlet> <servlet-name>LoggingServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>LoggingServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>LoggingServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/loggingServlet</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> */ import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.ServletConfig; import javax.servlet.ServletContext; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; public class LoggingServlet extends HttpServlet { private ServletContext context; public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException { super.init(config); context = getServletContext(); context.log("Init has been invoked"); } public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException { ServletOutputStream out = res.getOutputStream(); context.log("doGet has now been invoked"); res.setContentType("text/html"); out.println("<html><head><title>Logging Servlet</title></head>"); out.println("<body>Visit the <tomcat-home>\\logs and open the xx file to see the log entries"); out.println("</body></html>"); } }