Best practices on how to implement logging in custom application

In the Enterprise Manager it is possible to display/browse the content of different log files generated by the application server modules.
I have some custom web applications which currently use the log4j framework to write to log files. Is it possible to make these log files accesible for the Enterprise Manager ?
Or what is the best practice on how to implement logging in custom applications which can be browsed in the Enterprise Manager (I do not want to use system.out)

I thought that this could be done. An ex- colleague did this - but he didn't tell me how to solve this.
But as it just took 10 minutes to solve this I believe it's fairly easy.
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Andreas

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