[Commons-Logging] Tomcat problem

[Fabio Salvi <fa...@kyneste.com>]

Hi all,
 
could anyone kindly help me solve some problems I'm facing in configuring commons-logging with a struts application deployed in Tomcat 4.1.18.?
 
My intention would be to use log4j as logging system implementation, so I put commons-logging.jar and log4j.jar in my WEB-INF/lib directory and configuration files(commons-logging.properties and log4j.properties in WEB-INF/classes).
 
The problem is that Tomcat does ignore my settings and seems to start another instance of Logging system - used by the server itself - with SimpleLog configurated.
 
 In various forum I saw that this appears to be a Tomcat classloader issue; I tried to apply many of suggested workarounds but in vain...It's a shame because I believe that  Commons-logging philosophy is very elegant indeed! So I'd be very grateful to anyone who could give me an effective solution!
 
Thanks in advance for your attention,
Fabio