On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Glenn Nielsen wrote:
> Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>
>> One important point to remember is that each
>> webapp classloader could load a fresh copy of log4j so that each
>> webapp has its own logging universe. >
>
> This would significantly increase the memory footprint required for
> logging in the JVM. I would prefer that log4j be global.
>
Log4J is nothing compared to having multiple XML parsers in memory :-)
Actually, it is technically feasible to do this either way -- if you put
the Log4J JAR file in common/lib instead of server/lib it becomes
available to the webapps as well. The disadvantage is that the static
variables really are global instead of once per web app (which they would
be if each webapp installed its own copy), so they would share the same
set of Log4J categories, appenders, and so on.
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
Craig McClanahan
