"PeterJ" wrote : Or it could be some configuration in the Spring Framework, but I have used Spring and have not experienced this happening. Ahh -- thanks for putting me onto Spring. We had the following entry in our web.xml file: | <listener> | <listener-class> | org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener | </listener-class> | </listener> | I removed that entry, and now Log4J doesn't get shut down when I redeploy the app. So, we now have a workaround. Great! Stephen View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044493#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...