Hi,

Reading the manual I found the example Initialization servlet. I've tried to get this working in our app but I'm experiencing problems because getServletContext().getRealPath("/") returns null (Having spent a while googling, I think this is because I'm packaging everything in an ear file).

Is there a recommended way of getting round this?

(background):

We want to use JMS for logging under log4j (so that we can use Chainsaw - with SocketHubAppender we can lock the entire weblogic node if a chainsaw gui locks up). This was ok until we tried to integrate an external authentication library with the app, which apparently also uses log4j. The problem is, this lib gets initialised as a service in weblogic, *before* the JMS service has started up, causing big problems. I've tried putting log4j.properties inside the ear file on the manifest class-path but it doesn't seem to be found. I've also tried using a config.jar containing a single log4j.properties file and referencing this jar on the manifest class-path, with no success. Now planning to use a default log4j.properties in the domain root, defining just a fileAppender and then adding the JMSAppender using the initialization servlet.

Any help gratefully received!

Cheers, Stephen