Re: Log4J configuration

Thelmo,

I'd be interested in seeing your patch.  This is a bothersome point and a
good solution would be welcome.

Regards,

Terry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thelmo Loisio" <thebiMbo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <enhydra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:01 PM
Subject: Enhydra: Log4J configuration


> I'm digging through an issue (quite small) with the deploying of enhydra
> apps in a different servlet container as the release-notes.html states.
>
> This is the issue:
> At line 592 of HttpPresentationServlet.java you get private
> configureLogger(String) method which gets the servlet "ConfFile"
> parameter value, extract the directory path from it and try to read a
> file named log4j.xml from that directory path. For extracts directory
> path of that parameter value it search for String.lastIndexOf("/") and
> compare it with String.lastIndexOf("\\") which can result in an empty
> directory path if you put only a filename within "ConfFile" parameter in
> web.xml (for ex myApp.conf insted of /full/path/to/myApp.conf), this
> results in HttpPresentationServlet.configureLogger(String) to look for
> log4j.xml file in the "actual current" directory, with "actual current"
> i mean the directory from which you start your servlet container
> (actually tested only on Tomcat 4.1).
>
> I think it's better to modify that method to check if the "ConfFile"
> parameter has _no_ directory path and then try for it to look at WEB-INF
> subdirectory of the webapps.
>
> If you care i can provide a patch.
>
> Hope of to have been clear ;)
>
> Regards,
> Thelmo
>
>
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