Hi,
It's true Tomcat 5.5.7 and later (not all 5.5.x releases) come with JULI, a
tiny library Remy put in place to do away with the logging configuration
difficulties.  It's true that JULI should be configured with a properties
file.  But, as the documentation
(http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/logging.html) states, users
still can and should configure their own log4j settings for their webapp,
and they can do so in any of the log4j-supported mechanisms, including XML
configuration.  So while the tomcat logging configuration at
$CATALINA_HOME/common is in properties format, the user configuration format
in their webapp is up to them.  That part of the assertion in the post you
quote is false.

However, the doc isn't perfectly clear on this.  I should probably clarify
it further.

Yoav Shapira
System Design and Management Fellow
MIT Sloan School of Management
Cambridge, MA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond DeCampo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Logging Strategy/best practice]
> 
> Anybody know if the claims below have any merit?  This is from a post on
> comp.lang.programmer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Logging Strategy/best practice
> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:06:24 +0300
> From: A_Wieminer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Elisa Internet customer
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
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> 
> >> 3. Anything else I should consider?
> > Use the XML format for the properties file, not the .properties format.
> 
> FYI, Tomcat5.5.x uses a new JULI (java.util.logging.interface) logging
> for web applications. It can use JDKLog, Log4j or other implementations.
> 
> I have read from tomcat site, that if you use Log4j as a logging
> implementation you _must_ use .properties format. Its something to do
> with how webapp-level logging is configured and xml format
> incompatibilities. It is supposed to be fixed in later Log4j versions.
> 
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