Re: commons-logging problem

2009-01-31 Thread John Holman
Certainly putting commons-logging and log4j in the container's common/lib directory is the documented configuration. However this does not allow application-level logging for libraries used by the application like digester or spring that themselves use commons logging. The application log messa

Re: commons-logging problem

2009-01-29 Thread John Holman
INF/lib? I can't find a definitive statement one way or the other in the Tomcat docs, but it seems necessary to do this to get debugging info from digester etc. Unless I'm missing something. Many thanks, John. Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: John Holman [mailto:j.g.hol...@qmul.ac.

commons-logging problem

2009-01-29 Thread John Holman
I have a web application running in Tomcat 5.5.27 with JDK 1.5.0_16-b02 on Windows XP SP3. log4j-1.2.15.jar and commons-logging-1.1.1.jar are installed in WEB-INF/lib and there is a context.xml file in META-INF. When packaged as a war file this combination reliably produces the exception shown be