[infinispan-dev] Adding excludes for log4j.xml to test-jar target

[Manik Surtani]

On 19 Aug 2009, at 09:56, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While working on the ISPN cache provider, I've realised that the test
> jar contains a log4j.xml and this stops you from using a different  
> log4j
> settings to the one in the test jar. This is because log4j first and
> foremost looks for a 'log4j.xml' and if present, it uses that. This
> cannot be overriden with -Dlog4j.configuration.
>
> As a result, I'm adding an excludes to avoid this log4j.xml ending  
> up in
> the test jar. The other alternative would be to rename
> src/test/resources/log4j.xml to something else, i.e.
> log4j-infinispan.xml but doing this would stop the log4j settings from
> being picked up by default during Infinispan development, hence, I  
> think
> the excludes setting is the best option here.

+1 to ensuring it does not get packaged with the test jar, but it  
should still be included in the distro (in the conf directory) as an  
example of how folks can enable logging.

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Manik Surtani
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