Question about Log4j and ObjectRepositoryAssembler

Hey Jake,

Here's a question for you about Log4j and ObjectRepositoryAssembler.
Basically, everything seems to be working fine for the most part in regards
to logging - I am running Tomcat directly (not as a service), and calls to
various loggers show up in the Tomcat console, which is where I expect to be
seeing them.

The issue is that I cannot get the logging for ObjectRepositoryAssembler to
show up in the console, and I know it used to. What is happening, is that
ObjectRepositoryAssembler logging is going to the log files in Tomcat's logs
directories.

What I _suspect_ happened is that the problem began when we went away from
using the Log4j init servlet - in web.xml, that used to be forced to run
before the ObjectRepositoryAssembler. Now, when we switched to the Log4j
context listener, I am _guessing_ that the ObjectRepositoryAssembler servlet
is no longer waiting for the Log4j stuff before it runs...so if the log4j
config stuff is not configured, then that would explain why my logging is
initially going to the default log file, and then subseqent logging goes
where its supposed to according to what's defined in my log4j.properties.

At any rate, that's my theory, and I'd like to get your opinion on it. Its
easy to test - just run Tomcat directly and see if you can get
ObjectRepositoryAssembler logging to show up in the console.

Any suggestions or ideas?

tia,
Christian

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Christian Cryder
Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
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