Comments on: How to configure log4j for a web app

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:28:30 +0000

Very Useful information

By: CertPal

CertPal — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:12:53 +0000

@phoet hahaha ! ok. The down vote plus the comment seemed like a subtle message to me. Cheers

By: phoet

phoet — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:04:16 +0000

CertPal :
But if you are implying that I tried to copy the idea of your standard

no, that was not my intention. i just wanted to link to my post

By: CertPal

CertPal — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:47:55 +0000

@Vladimir Dzhuvinov That's great to hear ! Have a nice day.

By: Vladimir Dzhuvinov

Vladimir Dzhuvinov — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:31:57 +0000

@CertPal Thank you. Today I implemented your suggestion my current web app project, a JSON-RPC service. Implementing the listener interface was simpler to code and also seems semantically more correct than using a custom init servlet.

By: CertPal

CertPal — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:43:43 +0000

@Vladimir Dzhuvinov The Init servlet is also an option as well. It comes down to a matter of preference I guess. I usually choose a listener over an init servlet since I believe they are easier to spot.

By: Vladimir Dzhuvinov

Vladimir Dzhuvinov — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:15:02 +0000

Good suggestion.

Does this approach have advantages over using a custom init servlet, as described in the Ant 1.2 manual @ http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/manual.html ?

By: CertPal

CertPal — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:38:08 +0000

@phoet Your method seems similar except for the fact that you use 'configure and watch' and do not use a context param. The JMX extension approach is interesting but is not practical. I would not expect logging to be a managed extension that can have changes at runtime. Yes, we are talking about trying to improve the standard and thus about the same thing. But if you are implying that I tried to copy the idea of your standard, you are way off. I know several projects that use these standards before either of these blog entries were ever written.

By: phoet

phoet — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:29:17 +0000

looks exactly like the stuff i recently blogged about:

http://blog.nofail.de/2010/04/taming-webapp-logging-with-log4j/