[Babeldoc-devel] logging problem

[Dejan K. <dej...@nb...>]

Babeldoc RC3 version has problem with logging. When scanner is started user
will get error that log4j is not configured properly. This is happen only
with scanners because scanner uses commons logging directly. Other Babeldoc
code use LogService for logging. In the LogService there is static
initalizer for initializing log4j. This is bad since commons-logging is used
to make logging indenpendent of  logging framwork used...

Anyway, I tried to solve this problem but I encountered strange problems.
log4j is initalized by loading log4j.properties file. This file should be in
somewhere in classpath. If other file should be used for initalization then
its name should be set as log4j.configuration system propery. But this
simply doesn't work with Babeldoc!!!!  Why? I don't have idea!
If I set log4j.configuration property (in env/config.properties file) to
log/config.properties it is not initalized. I tried to load this file by
myself and it works. But log4j simply doesn't see this file. If I put
log4j.properties file into classpath then it works fine.
In log4j documentation it says that default initalizer will look for config
file using log4j.configuration system property and if this property is not
set it will look for log4j.properties file since it is default one. Now, if
I set log4j.configuration to some value and put log4j.properties file into
classpath log4j is using log4j.properties even log4j.configuration is set.
This is quite strange!

So until I find why log4j.configuration wont load specified file, we should
use log4j.properties from the classpath. So I have renamed file
log/config.properties to log4j.properties under config folder in core
module. I have also removed static initalizer from LogService class.

If anybody has idea what's going on please tell me!

Dejan