Urgent: Redirecting System.out.println to more than one place

Question

Hi All,
I want to divert all my System.out.println() statements to a Log file as well as on to the screen.
But only one of the 2 options actually works.
So if anyone can suggest me some ways I will appreciate very much.
My code looks something like this:-
if (m_filename != null) {
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(m_filename);
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(fos);
System.setOut(ps);
System.setErr(ps);
//This code Added for Printing Onto Screen But it does not work
Stream ps1 = new PrintStream(System.out);
System.setOut(ps1);
System.setErr(ps1);
} catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("Could not create log file " + m_filename + " because " + ioe);
As far as logging onto file is menat it works when i set it but printing onto screen does not.
How can i achive it
Thanks
Raj

Answer 1

Hi,
You are right but in my current scenario i cannot incorporate this log4j because my application is using some other framework and I am just trying to override this frameworks loggig behaviour so that it logs to both a log file as well as on to the screen.
Here is the code that this framework uses for logging and i am simply overriding it to do the reqd thing but its not working for me:-
* Resets the System's out and err OutputStreams to the Launcher's
* own ThreadedOutputStream, so that output from different threads
* can be tracked efficiently.
protected void setOutputStreams() {
     if (scInfo.size() <= 1) {
// don't need Threaded handling with one thread
if (m_filename != null) {
try {
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(m_filename);
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(fos);
System.setOut(ps);
System.setErr(ps);
//Added for Printing Onto Screen
                         PrintStream ps1 = new PrintStream(System.out);
System.setOut(ps1);
System.setErr(ps1);
} catch (IOException ioe) {
Debug.fatalError("Launcher.setOutputStreams","Could not create log file " + m_filename + " because " + ioe);
else {
Debug.information("Launcher.setOutputStreams","Initializing ThreadedPrintStream");
if (m_filename == null) {
System.setOut(new ThreadedPrintStream(System.out));
System.setErr(new ThreadedPrintStream(System.err));
else {
PrintStream out = new ThreadedPrintStream(m_filename);
System.setOut(out);
System.setErr(out);
//Added for Printing Onto Screen
System.setOut(new ThreadedPrintStream(System.out));
System.setErr(new ThreadedPrintStream(System.err));
Debug.information("Launcher.setOutputStreams","ThreadedPrintStream initialized.");
Thanks
Raj