We have a custom web framework packaged into a jar file (myframework.jar) that is used by 50 web applications deployed as WAR files on Weblogic 8.1 SP4. myframework.jar uses the Spring framework internally (which uses commons logging API), so we must continue to use SLF4J's jcl104-over-slf4j-1.3.0.jar for the foreseeable future. None of these web apps use EJBs and I want to avoid them.
myframework.jar, log4j.jar, slf4j*.jar spring.jar, and dozens of other 3rd party dependencies are loaded on Weblogic's server classpath. myframework.jar is under continual development by my team and we can't redeploy every WAR file with the new version of libraries in WEB-INF/lib - so we have to load myframework and other JARs on weblogic's classpath. Each web app has very few Java classes of its own - most are Spring-injected from myframework.jar. This has proven to be an interesting puzzle because we want each web app to write to its own log file (appA.log, appB.log, etc), but be able to record log entries from classes inside myframework.jar, spring.jar, etc for debugging purposes. I bought the Log4J book, read Chapter 8, and followed the JBoss instructions here http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Log4jRepositorySelector to create a custom RepositorySelector (which loads /WEB-INF/log4j.properties), and modified myframework's StartupListener to initialize this RepositorySelector in each web app's web.xml. The problem is that when I start weblogic with several webapps (appA.war, appB.war, appC.war, etc), all log entries are written to appA.log, even though each application has its own WEB-INF/log4j.properties (albeit they are currently all the same, except for the "log4j.appender.file.File" value). Am I doing something wrong to keep JAR files at the server level but let each web app write to its own log file? Thank you Here is appA's log4j.properties file: log4j.rootLogger=warn, file ### direct messages to file <app name>.log ### log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender log4j.appender.file.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd #Each app should go to its own log file but they are not log4j.appender.file.File=c:/logs/appA.log log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss,SSS} %5p %C{1} - %m%n log4j.logger.org.apache.struts=error log4j.logger.org.apache.commons=error log4j.logger.org.apache.jcs=error log4j.logger.org.springframework=error log4j.logger.org.hibernate=error log4j.logger.org.acegisecurity=error #Make sure you turn logging off before deploying to staging or production. log4j.logger.com.myframework.core=debug _______________________________________________ user mailing list [email protected] http://www.slf4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
