I actually tried: org.apache.* ...... ok, turns out I did not place the property file 
in
the right
location.

Richard

Scott Stirling wrote:

> Have you tried adding org.apache.commons.logging.* to your excluded.properties in 
>JUnit?
>
> Scott Stirling
> Macromedia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Emberson
>
> If one uses Junit's TestCaseClassLoader loader - letting one run the
> test with its own classloader,
> then the logging system throws an exception:
>
> .java.lang.ClassCastException:
> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl
>         at
> org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.newFactory(LogFactory.java:504)
>         at
> org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getFactory(LogFactory.java:350)
>         at
> org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:400)
>         at org.apache.axis.MessageContext.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
>
> Why? because it is trying to cast a LogFactoryImpl to a LogFactory ....
> why does this fail? because
> they are from different classloaders, LogFactory from the initial loader
> and the LogFactoryImpl
> from the loader from the test you are running .... and we all know that
> classes are identified
> by their type and classloader (not their type alone).
>
> What is the fix? there is not one ... you simply can not run your junit
> tests each in their own
> classloader environments.
>
> Richard

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