Bill,

From: Mark Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 17:58
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: log4j2 configuration in tomcat 8.5.5

On 21/09/2016 22:49, Bill Phillips wrote:
> My team has elected me to upgrade Tomcat from 7.X to 8.5.5+ on our very
> old and very large web application.
> 
> Under Tomcat 7.x, this application uses the tomcat-juli-adapters to replace
> JULI with log4j1.16. Worked like a charm for years.
> 
> 
> Under Tomcat 8.5.5, I'm getting exceptions such as:
>        java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/juli/WebappProperties
> 
> 
> Googling this led me to the discovery that log4j1.x support via
> tomcat-juli-adapters was
> discontinued in Tomcat 8.5, as described here:
> 
> https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58588
> 
> 
> My understanding is that JULI can be replaced by log4j2 without the
> adapters,
> but I cannot find a description on how to do this.
> 
> 
> Can anyone describe to me how this is done?

https://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.6.1/log4j-jul/index.html

should point you in the right direction.

Mark


> 
> 
> It is no longer covered in the user documentation as it was on earlier
> versions:
> 
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/logging.html
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 

You can read about how I configured my tomcat 8.5.4 to use log4j2 here:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/201607.mbox/%3CBAY406-EAS165A578E6D90447E4CC9B0B96010%40phx.gbl%3E
Chen


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