Configure path to log file in appCtx.xml?

[dan.baumann]

Hi,

My webapp gets deployed to several tomcats, and log files have to go into $CATALINA_HOME/logs.

My beans are configured via PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, but I still have to use ant's filter tag to adjust the path to the log file in log4j.properties.

Any idea how to get rid of the filter tag?

TIA, Dan

[wpoitras]

If a configuration variable doesn't end up in a .properties file, where would you like for it to come from? Where that is, you can create a subclass of the configuerer to get it from there. Some possibilties:
- The environment
- a database

Using system properties in your start up script (not advised, but an option) is already supported by the configurers.

[dan.baumann]

Sorry, I don't think I understand. I'll try to be clearer this time:

I want the path to the log file be configured at runtime, and my problem is that I cannot use PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer, because the log file path must go into log4j.properties, and not applicationContext.xml.

TIA, Dan