On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:17 AM, George Uecker wrote:
I have a custom appender that is in a separate library because it
has dependencies on some 3rd-party commercial libs. When I try to
configure this appender, the DOMConfigurator says it can't find the
class. What do I have to do to be able to use a custom appender
that does NOT reside in the log4cxx lib?
TIA,
George
The problem is likely due to the registration either not occurring or
occurring after the configuration file is processed. You somehow
need to force the appender registration to occur before the
configuration file is processed. To figure out how to force the
order, you would need to know how configuration is triggered
(explicit call or default configuration) and when (are their logging
statements in static constructors that are triggering default
configuration) and to make sure that your appender containing library
is loaded and its registration code called before that.
How are you forcing your appender library to be loaded? Does your
custom library show up when you look at the executable with depends,
ldd or equivalent? You might try adding a call to
MyAppender::registerClass() to your app somewhere that will precede
the configuration. Calling registerClass() repeatedly is not harmful
and should not be all that expensive.
If that doesn't fix the issue, then set break points on the
registration code and default configuration and check that the
registration code is being executed and whether it is prior to
configuration?
