Hi, according to my own questions i've now a kind of configuration that i would like to discuss with you. 1. Tomcat 3.2.1 is started with the system property -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j.xml 2. This log4j.xml is located in 'C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\classes' 3. A servlet at startup calls 'DOMConfigurator.configure();' Now, container wide log4j settings are available. 4. The web applications places their files in 'C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\log4j-myapp.xml' 5. A servlet at startup calls 'DOMConfigurator.configure("'C:\\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\\webapps\\myapp\\WEB-I NF\\log4j-myapp.xml'");' Now, application specific log4j configuration settings are available. Is this the way to handle log4j in containers as Tomcat ? (The file location is for sure not hard coded, instead it is defined in web.xml.) Regards Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]