configure log4j in unexpanded war

[lborotaz]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how if they have a good way of configuring log4j from the web.xml where the war does not have to be expanded?

The Spring helper Log4jWebConfigurer works only with expanded wars. I am using Weblogic 9.2 and deploying to a cluster. I can't use absolute paths as I have no idea where Weblogic expands the war to

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Regards,

Abdul

[jstehler]

Have you tried using the 'classpath:' notation in the location parameter of

Log4jConfigurer.initLogging()

If the location is relative to your project, classpath: will start at the project root (e.g. if your log4j.props file is at /WEB-INF/log4j.properties, it should work to specify the path as classpath:/WEB-INF/log4j.properties).

This can be configured in web.xml:

<context-param>
  <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name>
  <param-value>classpath:/WEB-INF/log4j.properties</param-value>
</context-param>

...

<listener>
  <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class>
</listener>