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Claude Brisson resolved VELOCITY-719.
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Resolution: Fixed
Assignee: Claude Brisson
Fix Version/s: 2.x
Since Velocity 2.x has switched to SLF4J, Velocity doesn't try itself to create
any log file.
When no binding is present in the classpath, the default behavior is the
following: SLF4J will log a warning message on the standard error stream, and
use a NOP loader.
> Unwritable velocity.log appears to cause Velocity initialization to fail,
> leaving velocity dead and useless.
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> Key: VELOCITY-719
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-719
> Project: Velocity
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Engine
> Affects Versions: 1.6.2
> Reporter: Cott Lang
> Assignee: Claude Brisson
> Fix For: 2.x
>
>
> When we upgraded to 1.6.2 from 1.5.0, we began experiencing failures:
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:1400)
> at
> org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeSingleton.getTemplate(RuntimeSingleton.java:326)
> at org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.mergeTemplate(Velocity.java:352)
> We eventually traced this back to Log4JChute attempting to create
> velocity.log in an unwritable $CWD.
> I realize you may or may not consider this a bug, as you may wish to have the
> system fail if it can't log. However, I couldn't even find any output
> indicating the initial failure to create velocity.log causing Velocity to
> fail to initialize. :)
> On a related note, is it possible to change the runtime.log default to BLANK
> so that velocity defaults to using a pre-existing log4j config if it exists?
> Although it's certainly an established tradition at this point, It seems a
> little backward to default to creating it's own log4j configuration - and a
> google search on velocity.log produces a very large number of people dealing
> with the problem of Velocity trying to create a velocity.log somewhere that
> doesn't work. :)
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