Hi Everyone,

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, i've tried looking through the documentation hosted on this site, but it doesn't appear to cover what i'm after.

I'm testing a new implementation of an EJB project in AS 7.1 before we consider migration from 5.1.

In our 5.1 server I confirgured the logging (using log4j) to work dynamically from the data, i.e. we're creating a new log file for each new order number we recieve with the DOMConfigurator.

e.g.

custom-log4j.xml

   <!-- ============================================ -->
   <!-- Custom logger to create order specific files -->
   <!-- ============================================ -->
    <appender name="CUSTOM" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.FileAppender">
      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
      <param name="File" value="C:\\filesys\\${client.code}\\${log.type}\\${file.name}.log"/>
      <param name="Append" value="true"/>
      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS}|%c|%-5p|%m%n"/>
      </layout>
    </appender>

PersistenceLayerBean:

        System.setProperty("client.code", "ME");
        System.setProperty("log.type", "test");
        System.setProperty("file.name", "hello");
        DOMConfigurator.configure(logConfig.toString());   <-- (where logConfig is the filesystem ref to the custom-log4j.xml

But i notice that there aren't many apache classes included in the new version, so i'm a bit lost:

Has the DOMConfigurator changed/moved?

Does AS7 provide this without using log4j, or must I manually include log4j & a configuration to enable this?

Any advice/direction is muchly appreciated.

If i need to include log4j manually, does anyone have a walkthrough on the filesystem requirements please? its not the same as 5.1!

Thanks,

Richard

p.s. i've put a quick custom logger into standalone.xml, which is what i was hoping to use for dynamic filenaming:

            <file-handler name="MYHANDLER">
                <formatter>
                    <pattern-formatter pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p [%c] (%t) %s%E%n"/>
                </formatter>
                <file path="C:\\Logs\\${client.code}\\${log.type}\\${file.name}.log"/>
                <append value="true"/>
            </file-handler>

            <logger category="ejb.PersistenceLayerBean" use-parent-handlers="false">
                <level name="DEBUG"/>
                <handlers>
                    <handler name="MYHANDLER"/>
                </handlers>
            </logger>