Re: [Webwork-devel] loading log4j.properties

[Mike Cannon-B. <mi...@at...>]

Usually Victors ideas are good - this time I think he's spent a little too
much time in the Puerto Rican sun ;)

The concept of a bare bones structure is ok, but the problem is as you
pointed out - what it should actually contain given that people's needs are
so different. (ie maybe it's a full J2EE app, maybe just a WAR, maybe it's
adding WW to an existing WAR)

However I do think having a much 'simpler' sample app is a good idea. I'd
keep all the complex stuff in there that's already there - it's quite good
for reference but very daunting to newbies who aren't sure where to start.
Then make a new 'newbie' WAR that's just a few simple (perhaps a series of)
actions which do form posts and the like, and show off the most common tags
(iterator, property, ui tags etc).

My $0.02.

-mike

On 8/1/02 8:02 PM, "Matt Baldree" <ma...@sm...> wrote:

> I could see how a bare bones project structure would be helpful for newbies
> to WW and web apps in general. What if we provided a bare bones sample
> project that would be part of the "dist" target. So as part of the
> distribution, this project structure would be built and moved under the
> example folder; i.e., example/projects/webapp. Do you think this would work?
> I guess one concern would be do we provide a sample bare bones project for
> JSP, Velocity, etc. or do we let them work this out for themselves using the
> examples and the documentation?
> 
> -Matt
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Victor Salaman" <vsa...@ho...>
> To: <ma...@sm...>; <web...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Webwork-devel] loading log4j.properties
> 
> 
>> Matt, that's great... Although my suggestion would be to create a "ant
>> skeleton" target, that builds a bare-bones, no frills webwork dir
> structure.
>> A new user can take this structure and use it to build an app. Out of my
>> evangelizing process, the biggest problem people have encountered is
> setting
>> up initially. By making a skeleton, that burden is removed.
>> 
>> /V
>> 
>> 
>>> From: "Matt Baldree" <ma...@sm...>
>>> To: "Webwork-Developer" <web...@li...>
>>> Subject: [Webwork-devel] loading log4j.properties
>>> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:40:40 -0600
>>> 
>>> I was working on the JSP documentation and realized we need a
> configuration
>>> document to describe how to configure WW. I wrote this today and added it
>>> to
>>> CVS. One section in configuration talks about configuring WW's logger. I
>>> think the developer should be able to substitute the default
>>> log4j.properties under webwork/ with their own if they so choose. This
>>> means
>>> they could provide a log4j.properties under WEB-INF/classes that WW would
>>> first check before loading its default under webwork/. This allows the
>>> developer a clean log4j.properties substitution without having to
>>> programmatically do it somewhere else. To allow this capability, I
> propose
>>> changing the ServletDispatcher as follows:
>>> 
>>> 84c84,92
>>> <
>> 
>> PropertyConfigurator.configure(classLoader.getResource("webwork/log4j.prope
> r
>>> ties"));
>>> ---
>>>>       try
>>>>       {
>>>> 
>> 
>> PropertyConfigurator.configure(classLoader.getResource("log4j.properties"))
> ;
>>>>          log.info("Custom log4j property file loaded.");
>>>>       } catch (Exception e)
>>>>       {
>>>> 
>> 
>> PropertyConfigurator.configure(classLoader.getResource("webwork/log4j.prope
> r
>>> ties"));
>>>>          log.info("Default log4j property file loaded.");
>>>>       }
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> -Matt
>>> 
>>> 
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