At 10:13 AM 12/07/2001, Carolyn Wasikowski wrote:
>First: when should I configure Log4J? My Log4J experience, unfortunately,
>far outweighs my JSP/servlet experience, but I'm guessing that all I need to
>do is use a DOMConfigurator within the init() method of the first servlet
>that gets loaded. (The web app's web.xml specifically requests that the
>servlets are loaded on startup, and specifically lists in which order they
>should be loaded.) Does this sound like a reasonable approach?
Have you seen the doco on initializing log4j under Tomcat at
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html ? It discusses several
options - I tend to use the default initialization approach as this causes
me less grief.
>Next question: has anybody made logging requests from within a JSP error
>page? By "error page," I'm referring to a JSP that sets isErrorPage="true"
>within its <%@ page %> directive. I'd like to do this, to ensure that
>exceptions get logged. Again... does this sound like a reasonable approach?
Sorry, can't help here - I steer clear of jsp :-(
>Finally, and perhaps most crucially: other members of my team have
>suggested that I create a new Appender that displays high-severity log
>messages to the user in a browser frame or a pop-up window. I've created
>custom Appenders before... but would one like this really be possible? If
>so... how?
I think someone just recently released an appender that may be of use to
you - check the mailing list archive for the subject HTTPAppender for a
copy of it.
HTH
Robert
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