Re: [Webmacro-devel] Double-logging in Tomcat?

[Eric B. R. <eb...@tc...>]

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 04:42  PM, kea...@na...=20=

wrote:

> My issue wasn't related to Servlets, I was running a non-Servlet app.=A0=
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> And I suspect the bug has been around for a long time.=A0 I tried to=20=

> unravel the logging subsystem, but I got pretty confused and then got=20=

> side-tracked.=A0 Since I had a workaround, I forgot all about it.=A0

Hell, should we just rip out our log stuff and replace it with Log4J? =20=

I bet this would make a lot of folks happy...  I've never used Log4J=20
but have heard it's just great and have considered using it here at=20
TCDI...  I wouldn't mind hooking it into WebMacro first, mainly to find=20=

out if it sucks or not.

> I can create a test case if anybody wants to take a look at this.

sure.  I'll be glad to investigate if you'll make a test.

eric

>
> Keats
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric B. Ridge [mailto:eb...@tc...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:35 PM
> > To: kea...@na...
> > Cc: ma...@an...; web...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Webmacro-devel] Double-logging in Tomcat?
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 03:37=A0 PM,
> > kea...@na...
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've seen a similar bug (which I never got around to reporting) in
> > > non-servlet mode.=A0 The problem for me was that if you
> > destroy and then
> > > restart the WM instance in the same VM session, the old log =
targets
> > > are still around, so things get logged multiple times.
> >
> > hmm.=A0 That's interesting.=A0 Why is that?=A0 Doesn't tomcat dump =
the
> > classloader when the webapp is restarted?
> >
> > The only changes to logging recently were the ones where I
> > changed all
> > the output methods to accept Throwables instead of
> > Exceptions.=A0 I doubt
> > this could cause Marc's problem, but thought I'd mention it.
> >
> > eric
> >
> > >
> > > Could this be your issue?
> > >
> > > Keats
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Marc Palmer [mailto:ma...@an...]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:40 PM
> > > > To: web...@li...
> > > > Subject: [Webmacro-devel] Double-logging in Tomcat?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Guys... anyone else seen this? I don't -think-it's me...
> > but WM under
> > > > Tomcat 4 on Win32, every WM log call is creating two
> > > > duplicate entries in
> > > > the webapp's log. Is it a config issue?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > --
> > > > Marc Palmer
> > > >
>