Github user fluxroot commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/176
That was my initial thought as well. However, there have been a couple of
issues which made me copy the functionality from Configurator.initialize() over
to Log4jWebInitializerImpl.getConfigURIs():
1. log4j-web is an optional dependency and only useful in a servlet
container environment. Common code would have to go into log4j-core.
2. Parsing config location in Log4jWebInitializerImpl.getConfigURI() is
more complicated. In addition to resolving file URIs, we have to search WEB-INF
and also consider servlet context name to find the matching config.
The solution in Java 8 would be to pass a closure to resolve the config
location. For Java 7 I guess there's no elegant solution for this problem (or
maybe I'm missing something :)). So for now I would leave this fix as is.
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