Here's a minimalist log4j.properties file you can use if you're getting a message that says, "log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger"
#If you want to see what Log4J is doing: #log4j.debug=true log4j.rootCategory=INFO,console log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%5p (%F:%L) - %m%n