Re: XML Log4j configuration

[chi runhua <ch...@gmail.com>]

Hi Mik, thanks a lot for contributing back to the community.

I've put the How-to information in G2.2 document at

https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/configuring-application-specific-logging-with-log4j.html

<https://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC22/configuring-application-specific-logging-with-log4j.html>
Jeff

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Kevan Miller <ke...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Aug 31, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Mik wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Kevan
> >
> > Thanks for your reply. Looking through the code in Log4jService.java made
> > the difference..
> >
> > // Allow users to override the configurationFile which is hardcoded
> > // in config.ser and cannot be updated by config.xml, as the
> > // AttrbiuteManager comes up after this GBean
> > String cfgFile = System
> >        .getProperty(LOG4JSERVICE_CONFIG_PROPERTY);
> > if ((cfgFile != null) && (!cfgFile.equals(""))) {
> >    this .configurationFile = cfgFile;
> > }
> >
> > So the config file value can be overridden at server startup by using
> > org.apache.geronimo.log4jservice.configuration system property, and it
> also
> > seems to accept the xml format :-)
>
> Hi Mik,
> Great. Good work digging through the source!. Forgot that this GBean
> attribute couldn't be overridden... Normally, the config.xml override would
> work. As indicated by above comment, this is an edge case due to order of
> server startup...
>
> --kevan
>
>