My own Log4j.properties for Jboss 3.2.3

[jaikiran]

Hi,
I need to create my own custom appender which will extend from org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.
If i make an entry for the same in the log4j.xml of conf directory as below:

<appender name="PE_LOG" class="com.myPackage.myAppender">
 </appender>

Then i will get ClassNotFoundException for obvious reasons as my classes havent yet been loaded when log4j service is being started.

So i did the following, which was mentioned at:
http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Logging (Section: Using your own log4j.properties classloader scoping)

I followed exactly what is mentioned in this link. However, the server is NOT considering my log4j.properties file. Its just ignoring it.

I have the following structure in my application:
myApp.war
|--- WEB-INF\classes\log4j.properties
|--- WEB-INF\log4j.jar

myApp.war is inside myProject.ear


The contents of my log4j.properties are:

#Appender Configuration
log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, ROOT
log4j.appender.ROOT=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.ROOT.File=C:/Temp/Server.log

log4j.appender.PE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.PE.File=e:/mylog/pe.log

#Layout Configuration
log4j.appender.ROOT.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.ROOT.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p [%c] %m%n

log4j.appender.PE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.PE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-5p [%c] %m%n

log4j.logger.com.myPackage=DEBUG

Contents of jboss-web.xml:

<jboss-web>
 <security-domain>java:/jaas/http-invoker</security-domain>
 <class-loading java2ClassLoadingCompliance="false">
 <loader-repository>
 testMyLoader:loader=myApp.war
 <loader-repository-config>java2ParentDelegation=false</loader-repository-config>
 </loader-repository>
 </class-loading>
</jboss-web>

Has anyone tried out this before. Can anyone please tell me why the log4j.properties is never considered.
I am using jboss-3.2.3

Thank you

[anguyen]

Did you rename conf/log4j.xml to something else (like conf/jboss-log4j.xml) and update conf/jboss-service.xml to match? Also, I think log4j.jar should go in WEB-INF/lib.

[jaikiran]

Ya, i did rename the log4j.xml in conf directory to jboss-log4j.xml.

Regarding, placing the log4j.jar in WEB-INF/lib directory, i will try it out.

I have a small doubt though:

- I DONT have my class files under WEB-INF/classes in myApp.war.
- The class files are placed in a myEjb.jar and myCommon.jar
- These 2 two jars are then placed in my ear file as follows:

myApp.ear
|---- myEjb.jar
|---- myCommon.jar

So, does specifying different classloader in the myApp.war, really make a difference.

If NO, how do we achieve maintaining our own log4j.properties in a J2EE application for ejbs.

Thank you.

[jaikiran]

Got it working. I did the following:

Placed log4j.jar and log4j.xml in myApp.ear. Then made the following entry in application.xml:

<module>
 <java>log4j.jar</java>
 </module>

Also, renamed log4j.xml to jboss-log4j.xml in conf directory of jboss, and correspondingly changed jboss-service.xml in conf directory.