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

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

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 05:28  PM, Marc Palmer wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:49:53 -0500, Eric B. Ridge <eb...@tc...> wrote:
>
>> Hell, should we just rip out our log stuff and replace it with Log4J? 
>>  I bet this would make a lot of folks happy...  I've never used Log4J 
>> but have heard it's just great and have considered using it here at 
>> TCDI...  I wouldn't mind hooking it into WebMacro first, mainly to 
>> find out if it sucks or not.
>
> Well... I don't think we should tie WM to another non-JDK API. I 
> haven't used Log4J and we have our own logging apis... abstracted so 
> we can use any underlying log transport - much like WM but simpler.

Very true.  But there's an advantage of not needing to maintain the 
code...

> If anything, we should make it use the JDK 1.4 logging api... but that 
> has obvious bad side-effects!

yeah.  :(  Dunno 'bout joo, but it'll be awhile before we (tcdi) moves 
to 1.4.  Hell, just recently got 1.4.1 support on my Mac.  Damn Apple.

eric

>>> 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.
>
> As per my post, I've got a feeling this is linked to multiple WM 
> instances. I have a feeling some log target stuff is getting confused 
> between WM instances.
>
> I will test this shortly... I just need to add another module to my 
> webapp config and if I get 3 copies of all log entries... then we know 
> I'm right :)
>
> Marc
>