Interesting aspect. I never dealt with classloaders. Thanks for this improvement of my knowledge.
Heri > -----Original Message----- > From: Javier Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:31 PM > To: Log4J Users List > Subject: Re: Different log files for different web applications under > Tomcat > > > It does not start different JVMs - however, given the way the tomcat > classloader works ( > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html ), the > instances are separate. I have a bunch of servers with separate log4j > configurations on each context to support my point ;) > > But you made me remember an important point - log4j.jar must > be only inside > the contexts, and not in $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib or > $TOMCAT_HOME/shared/lib > > On 2/27/06, Bender Heri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does Tomcat start a separate JVM for each WEB-INF > application? If not, > > your suggestion would not work since Log4j is global within one JVM. > > Heri > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
