This is the calling cfc <cffunction name="init" access="public" output="false" hint="I am the constructor"> <cfargument name="category" type="string" required="true" hint="" /> <!--- more info about log4j can be found at http://cfdj.sys-con.com/read/42122.htm ---> <cfset var logConfigurator = createObject("java", "org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator") /> <cfset logConfigurator.configure( expandPath("../config/log4j.xml") ) /> <cfset variables.logger = createObject("java", "org.apache.log4j.Logger").getLogger(replace(arguments.category, "..", ".", "all")) /> <cfif isnull(variables.logger)> <cfset variables.priority = createObject("java", "org.apache.log4j.Priority") /> <!--- set the file to append to ---> <cfset variables.logger.getAppender("file").setName( expandPath("../logs/log4j.log") ) /> <cfset variables.logger.getAppender("file").activateOptions() /> </cfif> <cfreturn this /> </cffunction> <cffunction name="fatal" access="public" returntype="void" output="false" hint=""> <cfargument name="message" type="string" required="true" hint="" /> <cfif variables.logger.isEnabledFor(variables.priority.FATAL)> <cfset variables.logger.fatal(arguments.message) /> </cfif> </cffunction>