[Springframework-developer] RE: Log4J configuration

[James C. <jim...@do...>]

No one having any log4J problems? Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cook [mailto:jim...@do...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:41 PM
> To: 'spr...@li...'
> Subject: Log4J configuration
> 
> I'm trying to get my web-tier to log to a file, and my configuration is
> based on the JPetstore example. My web.xml file contains the following
> entries:
> 
> <context-param>
>     <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
>     <param-value>/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties</param-value>
> </context-param>
> 
> <listener>
>     <listener-
> class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
> </listener>
> 
> I am deploying to Tomcat 5.0.18, and I have added -Dlog4j.debug=true to
> the Tomcat startup.
> 
> In the Tomcat5 console, I begin to see JDK 1.4 style logging statements
> describing the Tomcat, Hibernate and Spring startup. About half-way
> through, the listener is loaded and I see Spring's loading of my
> log4j.properties file from the proper directory. Because I turned log4j
> debug on, I see the successful parsing of the log4j properties file. Now I
> would expect any future logging to be directed to my log4j appenders (both
> console and file), however the JDK-style logging continues. In the end,
> the log4j debug file was created, but has 0 bytes.
> 
> I am not deploying a war file to Tomcat (either packed or unpacked.) I am
> simply pointing Tomcat at my directory structure.
> 
> Any ideas?