Switch places with them for a minute -- They are providing free support and
pretty good support at that. Note that there are many, many basic questions
that could easily be answered by reading the documentation ("RTFM") or by
Googling ("STFW"), but instead posters demand immediate help as their
homework is due in 20 minutes, or their boss is sitting in the chair behind
them. Now take a potshot at the most useful, widely used, and COMPLETELY
FREE application server, which you paid nothing for, have no support
contract for (again, you paid nothing), and occasionally someone is bound to
take it a little personally. I have (casually) observed that the level of
'snippetyness' from the responder is inversely proportional to the quality
of the question.
On the subject of log4j.jar without log4j.properties, don't get mad at
Tomcat / Tomcat developers. Get mad at the idiot developers who shipped a
war file without a) knowing how to perform logging and b) performing basic
testing.
I help out when I can. If I'm not sure, but have a minute, *I* will often
STFW and/or RTFM to make sure. If I can do it, then so can you (the royal
you) and you didn't have to post. Ask intelligent questions, and you will
get intelligent answers. Show an unwillingness to learn anything, and you
will get snubbed.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Allistair Crossley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:39 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: RE: tomcat 5.0 vs. 5.5? tomcat 5.5 has been bad!
Please don't think it's the whole Tomcat community Dean, there are some
really helpful devs on Tomat, it's just Remy in particular has a problem
being polite/arrogant about Tomcat - I guess from his privileged point of
view he understands everything about Tomcat and therefore does not
understand what usability is all about.
All the best, AC.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Hiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 31 March 2006 11:39
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: tomcat 5.0 vs. 5.5? tomcat 5.5 has been bad!
wow! you guys sound pretty harsh when it comes to messages to help users
on simple mistakes then. I recently dropped in someone else's example app
war file that had the SAME PROBLEM.....latest facelets. I could not even
give back information to help them debug the problem. It was standard
tomcat 5.5.16. It worked on 5.0 just fine. I now know that I need to unzip
their war file, remove log4j(and maybe even hope that they are using
commons, because if they are not, I may be utterly screwed). Then I need to
redeploy their app. I need to do all this because tomcat is unwilling to
give good helpful messages as to what is going on(as seen by all the other
posts that have had trouble figuring out their problems behind that error
with no reponses either.....I was the lucky one and finally figured out what
was wrong). I can only hope others can find my solution post without
wasting too much time.
later,
dean
Remy Maucherat wrote:
>On 3/30/06, Markus Schönhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>>The RuntimeException is to make it more noticeable in the logs. I mean
>>>953 hits on googling is quite alot of people having trouble. Would
>>>be nice to cut that number down with an easy log statement that
>>>tomcat could add!!!
>>>
>>>
>>Well, if it's really that easy you should definitely provide a patch.
>>
>>
>
>I recommend not wasting time, as I would refuse such a nonsensical
>patch. The actual worakround is to learn how to properly use logging,
>which seems to be a useful skill.
>
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