Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader() is the context class loader which may be different than the "current" class loader, i.e. the class loader which loaded the class currently executing. You can get the current class loader by invoking this.getClassLoader() on any object. When you say that InsertFromJNDIAction instance and your servlet and filters instances have the same class loader, do you mean the same context class loader (with respect to the currently executing thread) or the class loader of the instances themselves?

Also note that the context class loader for the current thread is set some time during the initialization of your web-app by Tomcat by calling the setContextClassLoader method on the current thread. I am beginning to suspect that logback is being initialized before Tomcat has a chance to invoke setContextClassLoader. Is that plausible?

--
Ceki

On 07/06/2011 12:00 AM, Ravikanth Gangarapu wrote:
Hi Ceki,
         I have logback-core, classic, janino, commons-compiler jar files 
located under WEB-INF/lib folder, and the logback.xml is under WEB-INF/classes. 
In the console, the logback logs appear ahead of the application specific 
servlet and filter (from web.xml) init method System out statements.

I have modified the InsertFromJNDIAction class to print its classloader and did 
the same for servlet and filter init methods too. All of them printed the same 
class loader name.

So, I added,

ClassLoader loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
System.out.println("InsertFromJNDIAction "+loader.getClass().getName()+" 
"+loader.hashCode()+" "+loader.toString());

org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader 1024180126 WebappClassLoader
   delegate: false
   repositories:
     /WEB-INF/classes/
---------->  Parent Classloader:
org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader@46c837cd

The jndi context lookup is successful in servlet and filter init methods to 
print the env-entry-value. Logback still threw the error for lookup.

Thanks for your help
Ravi

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Ceki Gülcü
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 5:15 PM
To: logback users list
Subject: Re: [logback-user] question reg. reading JNDI env entries

Hello Ravi,

This is quite strange because for some name 'n', the JNDI lookup code in
logback essentially does InitialContext().lookup(n) the same code that
seems to work for you. Could the discrepency be attributed to
differences in the class loader for logback and the servlet code which
is able to correctly read the JNDI entries? Where are the logback
classes located on your application's class path?

--
Ceki

On 06/06/2011 10:25 PM, Ravikanth Gangarapu wrote:
Hi,

I am using logback-classic (0.9.28) for a web application running on
tomcat 5.5.

I am trying to read the JNDI env entry values using the<insertFromJNDI
env-entry-name="java:comp/env/stderr-logging" as="stdErrLogging" />  tag
in the logback.xml file.

I have lots of env entry values that can be read from
META-INF/context.xml file. For this specific example, my context.xml
file has this.

<context>

..

<Environment name="stderr-logging" type="java.lang.String" value="true"/>

..

But, this insertFromJNDI tags always says the entry value is null or
empty. However, Once I am in a servlet code, new
InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/stderr-logging") retrieves the
correct value from context xml file.

I looked in the JNDIUtil class from ch.qos.logback.classic.util package
and the code throws error saying "javax.naming.NameNotFoundException:
Name java:comp is not bound in this Context".

Would somebody know how to read the environment entry values from the
META-INF/context.xml file ?

Thanks for help

Ravi

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