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How to force log4j.xml to be read out of my war?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/phyto">Aaron Phillips</a> in <i>JBoss Microcontainer</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/568308#568308">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi folks,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Here's my problem, i have a WAR within an EAR.  Within the EAR itself are all the jars used by the WAR, which has no jars.  My WAR does log4j logging, and contains a log4j.xml in it's WEB-INF/classes.  The problem is, several of the jars in the EAR have also package a log4j.xml within them and the classloader is preferring these inner log4j.xmls to the one in my WAR's WEB-INF/classes.   I should mention that the WAR declares a manifest.mf file that lists the jars in the EAR explicitly.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I think I've confirmed this theory (of the EAR's resources being preffered over WEB-INF/classes), by the following:  I moved all the libs out of the EAR into the WAR's WEB-INF/lib.  My logging works in this case, as I would expect, since WARs honor resources in 'classes' over 'lib'.  </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'd like to keep the jars in the EAR and not have to move them to the WAR.   I have tried listing the log4j.xml in the WAR's manifest ahead of all other resources, but that does not work.  I have also tried twiddling the jboss-classloading.xml to get around this, to no avail.  Any ideas?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span>For a little more context, see </span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://goo.gl/kNqn" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/kNqn</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks!</p><p>Aaron</p></div>
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