Howdy, I don't know the answer, but I wanted to say I'm very interested in this question as well. Mr. G�lc� or anyone else care to comment? ;)
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:52 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Log4j and Tomcat apps > > >I was reading the Log4j manual and it suggests that for each webapp, you >should use a separate log4j jar file in each WEB-INF/lib to make sure that >each log4j is in its own "log4j Universe". However, this puts constraints >on where I put my libraries that use log4j. For instance, if I have log4j >in WEB-INF/lib, I can't have libraries that use log4j in TOMCAT_HOME/lib >because the libraries in the parent classloader won't find the Log4j >libraries in the child classloader. However, that is where I'd like to put >some of my libraries since they are common to all my webapps. In fact, >Log4j is common to all my webapps so I'd like to put it in TOMCAT_HOME/lib >as well. However, this would cause conflicts becase Log4j would no longer >be running in its own "Log4j Universe". > >So, in a manner of speaking, my libraries are being held hostage in >WEB-INF/lib because Log4j is designed in a way that it needs to live on >it's own and not be shared by multiple apps at once. > >Have I interpreted things wrong, or is this what was intended? Is there >anything I can do to keep my libraries from being "held hostage"? Are >there any tricks that I'm missing here? > >Jake > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:log4j-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:log4j-user- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
