On Apr 29, 2012, at 5:24 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 04/28/2012 04:40 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: >> >> On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: >> >>> On 04/28/2012 08:02 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: >>>> Hi Mohit, >>>> >>>> On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:34 PM, mohit gupta wrote: >>>> >>>>> At http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Logging, it is >>>>> stated that By default XWiki is configured so that SLF4J uses Logback. >>>>> XWiki's >>>>> Logback configuration is located in the WEB-INF/classes/logback.xml file >>>>> for For XWiki 3.1 and beyond. But if user want to use log4j instaed of >>>>> logback, >>>>> where it needs to be configured. >>>>> >>>>> I did not find any property related to that in xwiki.cfg or >>>>> xwiki.properties.What i tried deleting the logback.xml and putting my >>>>> log4j.properties instaed. But xwiki >>>>> does not pick log4j.properties. As per my understanding, xwiki is using >>>>> SLF4J, there should be hook somewhere where we should be able to change to >>>>> log4j insteadd >>>>> of logback. >>>> >>>> I've updated http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Logging >>> >>> Some feedback on the documentation you just added: >>> >>> I wonder if log4j-over-slf4j should be removed or not, since it might >>> conflict with the real log4j library (they define the same classes). >> >> It must be there or the bridging won't work. Our build automatically >> verifies that no 3rd party dependency we drag includes log4J. We handle this >> by using<exclusions> when a jar includes log4J transitively. > > What bridging? From log4j to slf4j? But when slf4j will try to write back to > log4, won't it cycle back through this bridge? As I said, this jar defines > the same classes as the real log4j jar. One can't have two classes with the > same name in the classpath.
You're right. I thought you wanted to do this for our build. I didn't understand you meant fixing the doc… Fixed now. Thanks -Vincent >>> Also, should the documentation mention that the log4j jar must be included >>> as well? slf4j-log4j12 declares it as a dependency, so it's not included in >>> that jar. >> >> Indeed, fixed, thanks. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>>> You could also have read about how SLF4J works at http://www.slf4j.org/ ;) > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
