Lukas Vogel created LOG4J2-1606:
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Summary: log4j-web deinitalizes the Logger too early if listeners
defined in web.xml use it
Key: LOG4J2-1606
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1606
Project: Log4j 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Web/Servlet
Affects Versions: 2.6.2
Environment: Java8, Linux/Mac, Tomcat
Reporter: Lukas Vogel
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We use log4j in a Apache Tomcat environment.
In the web.xml file we define a custom ServerStartup listener that initializes
the DB etc and logs both in contextInitialized and contextDestroyed.
If we use the log4j-web package the class Log4jServletContainerInitializer
initializes the logger and adds a Log4jServletContextListener to the
ServletContext. Since this listener is added after our listener the method
Log4jServletContextListener#contextDestroyed is called before our listener's
contextDestroyed method. Thus the Logger is de-initialized too early.
We could disable auto initialization and initialize the logger ourselves but
then doing it in the listener is too late since the WebService-framework (Metro
glassfish) initializes the webservice endpoints before the listener. Since we
use static logger variables in those webservice classes this would trigger the
message "StatusLogger no log4j configuration found..." because the logger was
not yet initialized.
One possible patch we see is that we make an option to manually add the
Log4jServletContextListener:
In Log4jServletContainerInitializer we would put an "if (! Manually added)"
around the call "servletContext.addListener(new
Log4jServletContextListener());" and then we could manually add it to the
listeners in web.xml
If you have any other suggestions I would be glad to hear them.
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