I ran into a problem on Jboss when I configured the root.logger. Jboss likes to suck in the System.out and .err, I was trying to log out my own errors separately. My logger stole away the System.out from Jboss. By not configuring the root.logger I avoided the problem
HTH On 9/11/05 11:29 AM, "Paul ANDERSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I had the problem that I wanted to use log4j in a webapp (based on > Spring Webflow), but I didn't want to change from the existing > jdk1.4+JULI logging of the TC server to use log4j. > > > > When I put log4j and log4j.properties (but not commons logging) in the > webapp, with a Log4jConfigListener from Spring, I got 'Appender not > configured' messages from Tomcat for its internal classes. > > > > I solved this by putting log4j.properties in WEB-INF/classes instead. It > seems to avoid TC's commons logging detecting log4j in the classloaders. > Log4j log lines look as they should and the JULI ones are unchanged, > with no log4j-related errors from the TC core. > > > > This was fine until I wanted to precompile my JSP's using the 5.5.9 > deployer. > > I got NullPointerExceptions for resources that couldn't be found - only > when I deployed log4j with the webapp. > > > > After much grief I saw that for some reason the deployer's lib directory > contains commons-logging full, instead of the API only as Tomcat does. > > So when Jasper executes, log4j is detected and there are problems > locating resources. > > When I put commons-logging-api there instead, all was well. > > > > I've seen many questions on the Internet about log4j and > NullPointerExceptions with the deployer. So maybe this will help > somebody. > > Maybe someone can even enlighten me as to exactly why all this happens, > and whether there's a better fix? > > > > Paul. > > > -- Dov Rosenberg Conviveon/Inquira Knowledge Management Experts http://www.conviveon.com http://www.inquira.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
