location of log4j.xml in an ear?

[elhanan]

hi...

i must admint i've been strugling with this thing for some time.

should an ear contain a log4j.xml file at all?

our ear has this file, but we also have jboss-log4j file, problem, there is a collision between, i can see no debug messages from my ear (com.pnx*) only when i "touch" the jboss lo4j file i can see them.

the jboss log4j has this:

<appender name="PMPCONSOLE">
        <errorHandler/>
           <param name="Target" value="System.out"/>
           <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
    
           <layout>
              <!-- The default pattern: Date Priority [Category] Message\n -->
              <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n"/>
           </layout>
     </appender>

<category name="com.pnx" additivity="false">       
        <appender-ref ref="PMPCONSOLE"/>
        <appender-ref ref="SocketAppender"/>
   </category>

this same ear should also go inside webpshere, and as far as i know , it's doesn' have an external log4j file, so i'm a little confused about the configuration here.

[jaikiran]

It should be possible to have your own log4j.xml in the .ear. Which version of JBoss AS is this? See if this helps http://community.jboss.org/message/198690#198690

[elhanan]

i'm using  jboss version 4.2.3, and using jbos-app xml didn't do much(or at all for that matter)  as i allready configured jboss at a server level to act in isolation. just deleting the log4j.xml from framework.jar folder which is in the root ofthe ear did the trick.