[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-5422) Logging configuration DUP should be more deterministic

[James Perkins (JIRA)]

James Perkins created AS7-5422:
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             Summary: Logging configuration DUP should be more deterministic
                 Key: AS7-5422
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5422
             Project: Application Server 7
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Logging
            Reporter: James Perkins
            Assignee: James Perkins


Notes from [~kconner]:

The findConfigFile method does a recursive search of the resource, looking for the configuration files, but there seems to be a couple of problems with this
- the order of the search may be dependent on the platform as VFS seems
  to rely on the filesystem order (not classpath) so it may not be
  deterministic across platforms.
- any log4j.xml/log4j.properties/jboss-log4j.xml will overwrite the
  previously discovered resource, resulting in the last being chosen.

I came across this while debugging some strange behaviour when deploying drools-guvnor.war into EAP 6.  What I discovered is that this loop first identified the top most resource (/content/drools-guvnor.war/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml) but then overwrote it with an embedded one (/content/drools-guvnor.war/WEB-INF/lib/webdav-servlet-2.0.jar/log4j.xml) but it doesn't appear as if this method has a well defined behaviour. 

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