Please send questions to the user list.  The dev list is for development, not user questions.  Note that I've made the switch in my response and CC'd you to make sure you see my response.

Are these all running in the same JVM?  Are you using standard classloading or specially configuring apps to use parent-last/child-first classloading?  Where do you place Log4j?  Where do you place your LogManager code?  I take it you have a separate LogManager class for each app?  So you have, for instance, a LogManagerWeb class and a LogManagerJava class, each performing Log4j configuration in its static initializer?

I would guess that you are probably sharing one big Logger Repository (especially if you have Log4j is some common location visible to all the apps) and each LogManager class is adding to the configuration.  Keep in mind that, by default, configuration in Log4j is cumulative.  However, where two configurations have defined the loggers and appenders by the same name, the last one configured wins.  This would explain the behavior you see where one app logs fine until the other app is initialized and it's log4j configuration is added to the repository.

You are actually going about this all wrong.  You either need to isolate classloaders and initialize once (and only once, at least if you value your sanity) at application startup or you need to use a logger repository selector, which allows for dynamic selection of logger repositories based on some custom criteria such as JNDI or Thread Context, each maintaining it's own configuration.  I wrote about the latter option earlier this week (or maybe late last week) on the user list.  Please search for recent posts from me for more info.


Jake

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
 "S.Kannan" <techy_k...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Hi All, A log4j newbie handling a bigger task .. This is my problem
Hope somebody has got some solution for this.

We have a web application as well as a java application. Both are big enough
. But since both are managing the same business around 3 to 4 ear files are
used in common for both the applications. Since we wanted to classify the
loggers based on the application we have decided to have unique
log.properties file. The following are the configurations in the
log.properties file

for web application
log4j.threshold=ALL
log4j.rootLogger=ALL,INFO_APPENDER,ERROR_APPENDER,DEBUG_APPENDER
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.MaxBackupIndex=50
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.MaxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.file=data/tda/logs/Logger_Debug_Web.txt
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.Threshold=DEBUG

for java application
log4j.threshold=ALL
log4j.rootLogger=ALL,INFO_APPENDER,ERROR_APPENDER,DEBUG_APPENDER
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.MaxBackupIndex=50
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.MaxFileSize=10MB
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.file=data/tda/logs/Logger_Debug_Java.txt
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.DEBUG_APPENDER.Threshold=DEBUG

The following is the customized log manager class which we have written
public class LogManager {
        String className;
        Logger objLog;

        static {
                InputStream logprops = LogManager.class.getClassLoader()
                                .getResourceAsStream("path/to/log.properties");
                try {
                        Properties prop = new Properties();
                        prop.load(logProps);
                        PropertyConfigurator.configure(prop);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                        System.out.println("error in  LogManager" + 
e.getMessage());
                }
        }

        public LogManager(String className) {
                this.className = className;
                objLog = Logger.getLogger(this.className);
        }

        public void logMessage(String strLevel, String Message) {
                if (strLevel.equals("DEBUG")) {
                        objLog.log(Level.DEBUG, Message);
                } else if (strLevel.equals("INFO")) {
                        objLog.log(Level.INFO, Message);
                } else if (strLevel.equals("WARN")) {
                        objLog.log(Level.WARN, Message);
                } else if (strLevel.equals("ERROR")) {
                        objLog.log(Level.ERROR, Message);
                }
        }
}

And in each class files we have called the logmanager like

private static final LogManager logMgr = new
LogManager(QueueListener.class.getName());
logMgr.logMessage("INFO","QueueListening starts.");

Now our problem is that most of the times the messages in the
Logger_Debug_Java.txt is routed to Logger_Debug_Web.txt once a class which
is common for both application executes. Then the thread or control does not
go back to the Logger_Debug_Java.txt file. Please give me a solution for
this problem

Kannan.S
        
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