Caldarale, Charles R schrieb am 24.11.2008 um 18:53:06 (-0600): > > From: Michael Ludwig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Setup Logging for Tomcat 6 > > > > "See the driver" - I think I used that expression yesterday. "Share a > > logging complex" - could you expand a bit on what this means, > > or provide a pointer to an informative document? > > Look at Tomcat's class loading hierarchy. Classes loaded from > Tomcat's lib directory are shared at runtime by all webapps (and > Tomcat, for that matter), whereas classes coming from a webapp's > WEB-INF/lib or WEB-INF/classes are local to that webapp. If the > classes from Tomcat's lib directory have any static fields or > singleton objects, only one copy of those fields and objects exist > for all the webapps.
I see. I wasn't aware of this property of the "common.loader". Does the same hold true for the "shared.loader"? > I haven't looked inside log4j to see just what information in > maintains in static fields or singletons, but keeping the log4j.jar > with each webapp insures you won't get any unwarranted interaction in > your webapps' logging. This make sense. Thanks! Michael Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
