Rename log4j.properties to xdoclet-log4j.properties inside XDoclet JARs
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Key: XDT-1578
URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/xdoclet/browse/XDT-1578
Project: XDoclet
Type: Task
Components: XDoclet Module
Versions: 1.2.3
Reporter: Darryl Miles
Assigned to: xdoclet-devel (Use for new issues)
Priority: Minor
The concern with this issue stems from the way XDoclet is invoked from ANT.
The classpath's in use to load XDoclet itself are usualy the same as the
classpath's used to compile the target code base XDoclet is working on. I
believe there is work being carried out in the ANT project for ANT 1.7 to
improve that situation.
But in real terms this means the applications log4j.properties file can
override the one distributed inside XDoclet.
You can see this problem if the target application has a log4j.properties file
with:
og4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout
log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG
At the top, then run XDoclet on it.
You will see that a ton of XDoclet log entries get emitted which is generally
not the intended behaviour.
At the moment XDoclet itself uses log4j and expects the default properties file
of log4j.properties I propose that a logger initialization function be created
that configures itself using xdoclet-log4j.properties and that all the entry
points into xdoclet call it before any logging events occur. I believe the
developer can still override the default log configuration by providing their
own xdoclet-log4j.properties in the working classpath but in the common case
where a user of xdoclet just want its default logging level it would work as
they expect.
I'm happy to carry out this work but would apperciate information as to where
to audit for all the entry points into xdcoelt and/or if there is already
initialization code in place at these points that I could tack logger
initialization into.
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