Log4j Configuration suppress warning message on context startup

I have configured log4j to utilize a environment property to read in log4j and other startup properties based on the server being deployed on.

Code:

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  <bean id="log4jInitializer"
    class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
    <property name="staticMethod">
      <value>org.springframework.util.Log4jConfigurer.initLogging</value>
    </property>
    <property name="arguments">
      <list>
        <value>${config}/log4j.properties</value>
      </list>
    </property>
  </bean>

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The logger is initialized correctly based on location without problems. However, a logger warning message is output to the console since Spring wants to log before the Log4jConfigurer is initialized. This outputs the following message.

Code:

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log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

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I can suppress the warning message by putting a default log4j.properties in the class path that turns off all org.springframework logging but it there a better way without including this file in every webapp? I have read the thread (/showthread.php?t=15909) about the same issue but didn't see a solution to this without using a class to configure log4j.



Thanks,
Brian