Getting java.util.logging to work with JUnit

In my development I normally create the JUnit test cases, but had trouble getting the java.util.logging statement to activate in the code I was testing.  I discovered a couple articles on the web and pieced them together for a solution.

As a reference, here is how I normally implement logging, with my OIM Flat File Connector XMLParser as the class:

import java.util.logging.*;

public class FlatFileXMLParser implements FlatFileParser {
    private static final Logger logger = 
        Logger.getLogger(FlatFileXMLParser.class.getName());

public void parse(File flatFile, FlatFileRecordHandler recordHandler,
                  ParserConfig config) throws Exception {
  String methodName="parse";
  logger.logp(Level.FINE, getClass().getName(), methodName,
    "FF-XMLP-001 entering");

Some explanation:
1) I use java.util.logging and never use log4j.
2) I use logp - never anything else.  One statement=commonality
3) I define String methodName to provide the method name in every module.
4) I add tags so that I can grep on the tags.  Each statement gets a tag.
5) Increment the numbers in the method and skip to next 100 on next method.
6) Debug statements as Level.FINE, use good judgement.

When I attempt to test these code modules I found that the logging was not being generated.  I found a great writeup and took most of this from it.  What I did was put the following into the JUnit class - not in the functional class:

public class AppTest extends TestCase {
  static {
    Logger rootLogger = Logger.getLogger("");
    System.setProperty("java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format",
           "[%1$tF %1$tr] [%2$s] %4$s: %5$s %n");
    for(Handler handler : rootLogger.getHandlers()) {
      handler.setLevel(Level.FINEST);
      handler.setFormatter(new SimpleFormatter());
    }
    rootLogger.setLevel(Level.FINEST);
  }

After this is the constructor and the test methods.  The logger will record the details to the output screen and you can track your code.

Good luck testing !!