LOG4J2-494. Ralph
On May 22, 2014, at 7:44 AM, Maarten Bosteels <mbosteels....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > Do you know where that enhancement request lives in JIRA ? > I would really like to vote for it. > > regards > Maarten > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Ralph Goers > <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>wrote: > >> That isn’t really feasible currently. Once Log4j finds the configuration >> file it can poll the file’s timestamp to see if it was updated and reload >> it, but IMO it would not be a great idea to modify the log4j config file in >> the directory wherever Jetty deployed it, and it certainly would be ugly to >> try to update the war file. What we did at my former employer with Tomcat >> and JBoss was to create a directory under their config directory and then >> add that directory to the server’s class path. Then specify that in your >> web app configuration. If you do that you can update the file whenever >> you want. >> >> If we were to make some sort of modification it would probably be to do >> something like have it first look at the location that was provided and if >> not found then use the default mechanism to locate a configuration instead >> of throwing an exception. However, that would still mean your updated >> configuration would be outside of the war. >> >> Another possibility is the enhancement request we have to support multiple >> configurations. With that the file in your war would be the default and >> then it could reference another configuration that could initially be empty >> but could be updated with new configuration. Unfortunately, no one has >> started work on that. >> >> Ralph >> >> On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:52 AM, Mikael Ståldal < >> mikael.stal...@appearnetworks.com> wrote: >> >>> I am using Log4j 2.0 in a Web Application, which is packaged as a .war >>> file, and deployed in an application server. >>> >>> I want to bundle a default Log4j configuration within the .war file, but >>> make it possible to override it in the application server when deploying, >>> without tampering with the .war file. >>> >>> Is that possible with Log4j 2.0? I am currently using Jetty 9.x as >>> application server, but I would like a solution which can be used in >>> multiple application servers. >>> >>> -- >>> Mikael Ståldal >>> Chief Software Architect >>> *Appear* >>> Phone: +46 8 545 91 572 >>> Email: mikael.stal...@appearnetworks.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
