[rules-dev] log4j.xml

[Mike McMahon]

Fernando Meyer or Michael Neale..any comments or thoughts? 
I guess I am of the belief that 
drools-repository/src/main/resources/log4j.xml should NOT 
be bundled into drools-repository.jar because it causes 
exactly the problems described by Geoffrey De Smet below.


>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:46:03 +0200
>From: Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [rules-dev] log4j.xml
>To: rules-dev at lists.jboss.org
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>Artifacts (jar or wars) used by 3th parties shouldn't 
>contain a 
>log4j.properties or log4j.xml in the root.
>If they do, the logging configuration depends on the 
>order of the jars 
>in the classpath, which is hard, error-prone and a bad 
>practice to control.
>
>Solution:
>- namespace the log4j.xml, like I did in drools-solver, 
>use a 
>DomConfigurer (or what's it called) at the initialization 
>of the 
>application. However that will be hard in a war I 
>believe.
>- or use sl4j?
>
>With kind regards,
>Geoffrey De Smet