[T4] Log4J configuration outside of WAR

[Marnix Bindels <ma...@chess.nl>]

Hi All,

I'd like to my web app to initialize the Log4J system using a log4j.xml 
file for which the location will be specified at server startup. In 
previous projects, using spring, this proved to be easily done by 
including some Log4jWebConfigurer instance. It's setup to refer to 
${my-app.config.dir}/log4j.xml and there you go. Does a HiveMind 
equivalent exist?

I've investigated HiveUtils giving me plain old properties files under 
HiveMind (thank you!) and a trapdoor to log4j.xml on  some absolute path 
location. The first is by adding a PropertyFileSources element to the 
hivermodule.xml and the second by adding a LoggingInitListener to the 
web.xml. However, I get the feeling that having the exact runtime path 
determined by a system property my-app.config.dir is not going to be 
achieved by these two. Or can it?

This is as far as I got in trying to solve my quest, being:
    - I'd keep app.properties and log4j.xml in directory 
C:\app\conf\production\
    - maybe I keep similar but different sets in conf\test-local and 
conf\...
    - before Tomcat startup, I add 
my-app.config.dir=C:\app\conf\production\ to the JAVA _OPTS env. setting

I'd be interested to hear from you,

Marnix


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