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On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:08:43 +0100, Ceki Gülcü <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > While performing some tests with Tomcat, I noticed that if log4j.jar > is placed in ./common/lib/, then for example an instance of > SMTAppender cannot be created without placing 'mail.jar' also in > ./common/lib/, placing 'mail.jar' in WEB-INF/lib is not enough. > > To circumvent this problem, I propose to split log4j.jar by > dependency. For example, > > log4j.jar (core classes depending only on JDK 1.2) > log4j-smtp.jar > log4j-jms.jar > log4j-db.jar > log4j-oro.jar > log4j-... > > This way, the user wishing to use SMTPAppender in her application can > place log4j-smtp.jar and mail.jar in her application's WEB-INF/lib > directory without the need to add any new jar files in ./common/lib. > > Apache Ant has adopted the same approach for similar reasons [1, 2]. > > [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=102689870118435&w=2 > [2] http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#delegating-classloader > > What do you think? > > -- > Ceki Gülcü > > The complete log4j manual: http://www.qos.ch/log4j/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
