When customizing logging configurations for signed Web Start apps, I usually have a default logging configuration in the jar, but check the file system in $userhome/.applicationdir for a logging configuration file. If the file exists in that $userhome/.applicationdir location, I load that configuration file via DOMConfigurator.configureAndWatch(URL). If the file doesn't exist, I use the default logging configuration in the jar.
Note, you need to do this logging configuration discovery logic early in your application load process, ahead of any loggers (I'd probably do the discovery in a static code block in your main class and make sure to not define a static logger in that class). Scott Chainsaw is a signed Web Start app, so you can access the file system (which we do to write & read preferences, configuration files, etc). On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jacob Kjome <h...@visi.com> wrote: > I've not written a WS deployed application, but Log4j's Chainsaw 2 uses a > custom Log4j configuration file that is outside any WS deployed jar file. > You might have a look at it. Hopefully the core Chainsaw developers will > comment here as well. > > Jake > > > > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:16:54 +0200 > Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I'm curious about the deploying of a java web start application and log4j. >> I mean, log4j has a configuration file (that can be included in a jar, as >> well) that should be accessible for configuration (so should be outside the >> jar), but ws do not allow you to store folders and files outside the >> required jars. Therefore I'd like to know how do you decide to deploy a >> log4j based ws application. Any suggestion? >> >> Luca >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > >
