Background note
Not a web application, a separate java program
Reported the following error
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (xxxx).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
solution
Before calling getLogger. First look at log system initialization
import org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator;
BasicConfigurator.configure();