Hi, I am playing around log4j from past two weeks, I liked it a lot, I am going to use it for centralized logging in my next distributed application, I have following questions. 1) Related to JMS Apppender, I extended the JMSAppender in order to able to get Initial context based on the providerurl than generic one, but I have problem can you make variables protected than default. 2) I also have similar problem with PropertyConfigurator, because my idea was to have ConfigFile located at centralized location, you have provided method which takes variable URL, but it dose not have method like ConfigureAndWatch(URL url, long delay), I did extending your class but the same problem with the variables being default instead of protected. 3) I also added one more JMSAppender for Queue Messaging concepts. Some other doubts related to employing log4j in EJB's because EJB containers restrict spawning threads, can any one explain regarding this issue. thanks ~Kiran Kiran Lagisetty Engineering Team iSyndicate [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:415-430-3620 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]