Sorry, for late answer. You can package log4j.properties in jar if you write application, not a library.

It's bad because your log4j.properties can be used instead of mine when flickr4java will be in classpath before my config folder.

D:\temp\flickr4jtest>dir /S /OG                                                                     
 Volume in drive D has no label.                                                                    
 Volume Serial Number is 9CA8-838F                                                                  

 Directory of D:\temp\flickr4jtest                                                                  

07.04.2015  11:02    <DIR>          ..                                                              
07.04.2015  11:02    <DIR>          config                                                          
07.04.2015  10:41    <DIR>          libs                                                            
07.04.2015  11:02    <DIR>          .                                                               
07.04.2015  10:37               215 Flickr4JTest.java                                               
               1 File(s)            215 bytes                                                       

 Directory of D:\temp\flickr4jtest\config                                                           

07.04.2015  11:02    <DIR>          ..                                                              
07.04.2015  11:02    <DIR>          .                                                               
07.04.2015  10:48               227 log4j.properties                                                
               1 File(s)            227 bytes                                                       

 Directory of D:\temp\flickr4jtest\libs                                                             

07.04.2015  10:41    <DIR>          ..                                                              
07.04.2015  10:41    <DIR>          .                                                               
08.11.2013  16:18           489 884 log4j-1.2.17.jar                                                
07.04.2015  10:35           294 126 flickr4java-2.12.jar                                            
               2 File(s)        784 010 bytes                                                       

     Total Files Listed:                                                                            
               4 File(s)        784 452 bytes                                                       
               8 Dir(s)  331 806 150 656 bytes free                                                 

D:\temp\flickr4jtest>type Flickr4JTest.java                                                         
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;                                                                     

public class Flickr4JTest {                                                                         

    public static void main(final String[] args) {                                                  
        final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("ROOT");                                             
        logger.info("test message");                                                                
    }                                                                                               

}                                                                                                   

D:\temp\flickr4jtest>type config\log4j.properties                                                   
log4j.rootCategory=debug, stdout                                                                    

log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender                                              
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout                                         
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=There is my message: %m%n                            

D:\temp\flickr4jtest>javac -cp libs/flickr4java-2.12.jar;libs/log4j-1.2.17.jar Flickr4JTest.java    

D:\temp\flickr4jtest>java -cp .;config;libs/flickr4java-2.12.jar;libs/log4j-1.2.17.jar Flickr4JTest 
There is my message: test message                                                                   

D:\temp\flickr4jtest>java -cp .;libs/flickr4java-2.12.jar;libs/log4j-1.2.17.jar;config Flickr4JTest 
- test message

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