Hi all,

First off sorry for writing a mail that I'm sure has been asked many times before-- I read various documentation and am still at a loss for the most elegant solution to my problem...

I have a web application framework that is normally installed in Tomcat. I have a few jars that are placed in shared/lib of the container as well as jars that are placed in individual webapps. Currently I have my own wrapper class that exists in the jar file in shared/lib and uses the following to use the log4j.properties file that is also packaged in the shared/lib jar file:

static { URL propsURL = SportletLog.class.getResource("/gridsphere/log4j.properties"); PropertyConfigurator.configure(propsURL); }

This seemed to work ok generally, although a user has tried integrating with JBoss and discovered that our code was hijacking the JBoss logging causing no JBoss messages to log. basically I'm wondering what the best strategy is to satisfy the following requirements:

1) Core framework classes that exist in shared/lib are logged

2) Classes that exist in individual webapps are logged

3) Other webapps that exist outside are framework do whatever they want and our logging does not step on their toes in anyway.

4) Other classes as part of the servlet container do whatever they want and we do not hijack their logging.

Thanks very much, Jason