RE: Barracuda: Patch for Log4jInit servlet

Hi Kirk,

> Among other custom jars, these guys are located inside the war:
> ./WEB-INF/lib/plankton.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-contrib.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-webapp.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-core.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.7a.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-log4j.jar
>
> In catalina's shared/lib I've put:
> ./activation.jar
> ./mail.jar
> ./xerces-1.4.4-xmlc-2.1.jar
> ./xmlc-2.1.jar
> In catalina's common/lib there's a custom JDBC wrapper driver that uses
> log4j. Therefore I have log4j.jar in common/lib too, exactly the same
> file like the on in the war. Might the two log4j jar files produce a
> conflict?

Well, one thing for certain - barracuda-log4j.jar needs to be in the same
location as log4j, so in this case, I'd say it needs to go in common/lib,
rather than the war.

Let us know what you find out...
CHrisitan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Stefan Armbruster
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:21 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Barracuda: Patch for Log4jInit servlet
>
>
> Hi Jake,
>
> see my comments below:
> Am Mon, 2003-01-13 um 15.37 schrieb Jacob Kjome:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Hmm.....
> >
> > That's curious.  When you say "deploying as a .war file" do you mean
> > to say that you used catalina's manager deploy command or did you
> > create a context that looked something like....
> >
> > <Context path="/mypath" docBase="myapp.war" />
> I'm using catalina's manager deploy using the ant taskdef. My war
> contains a META-INF/context.xml that is properly integrated into
> catalina's server.xml.
> >
> > I'm not completely sure about what happens to a deployed app when it
> > is deployed via Tomcat's manager app since I never do deploys, only
> > installs with the manager app.  The latter case where you specify the
> > docBas="myapp.war" is, under Tomcat's default settings, is the only
> > way to deploy a .war file without expanding the .war to a directory
> > structure and then deploying the directory structure.    Can you
> > explain how you deployed so that I can reproduce the error.  Sounds
> > like it may be a bug in Log4j.
> >
> > BTW, are you using the Log4j-1.2.7a.jar from Barracuda/WEB-INF/lib?
> > It isn't an official release, but contains a patch to the entity
> > resolver which makes it so that log4j.jar isn't locked after the app
> > is Tomcat manager removed from Tomcat.  In the official release of
> > logj4-1.2.7, even after a LogManager.shutdown(), the log4j.jar is
> > still locked so one can't do a clean build until Tomcat is shut down.
> > It might be good to test both the official release and the unofficial
> > logj4-1.2.7a version included in Barracuda.
> Currently I'm using 1.2.7a, the one that comes with Barracuda's CVS. I
> will try 1.2.7 and report it's behaviort.
> BTW: Log4jInit instantiates a DOM parser. Is this a XML parser problem?
> I'm using tomcat 4.1.18 LE JDK1.4.
>
> Among other custom jars, these guys are located inside the war:
> ./WEB-INF/lib/plankton.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-contrib.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-webapp.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-core.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.7a.jar
> ./WEB-INF/lib/barracuda-log4j.jar
>
> In catalina's shared/lib I've put:
> ./activation.jar
> ./mail.jar
> ./xerces-1.4.4-xmlc-2.1.jar
> ./xmlc-2.1.jar
> In catalina's common/lib there's a custom JDBC wrapper driver that uses
> log4j. Therefore I have log4j.jar in common/lib too, exactly the same
> file like the on in the war. Might the two log4j jar files produce a
> conflict?
>
> >
> > I'll apply your patch on BaracudaMVC.org (once it is up and running)
> > since the CVS at enhydra.org will not be updated anymore.
> > Jake
> >
> >
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
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