Logger seems broken or how to configure Log4J in my service.

[Stephen Graham]

I've been using the nightly builds and as of about the 5th June I've had a
problem with configuring log4j in my service.

The class that implements my web service calls

  public DataFacade() {
    System.out.println("Constructing 'DataFacade' server interface...");
    System.out.println("Loading logger configuration : " +
ServerProperties.getInstance().loggerConf);
 
PropertyConfigurator.configure(ServerProperties.getInstance().loggerConf);
    ...
  }

Since around the date I mentioned the call to PropertyConfigurator.configure
hangs (never returns), which stops my service from starting up.

When this first happened I tried using a log4j-yyyymmdd.jar from an earlier
version - which immediately fixed the problem, so I assumed this was just
temporarily broken.

But now I'm using nightly build 20030608 and the problem still exists. 

So I'm wondering what is the appropriate way to configure log4j in my
service (read: am I doing something wrong) or is this a bug?

Regards
Stephen Graham.