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Re: [V3] Question about LogStrings.properties

From: Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:30:53 -0700

Jerome,

Can you update us on the upcoming changes that you mentioned at the meeting today?

Will they expect each module to have the corresponding bundle locally (i.e.
moved out of the common/common-util and split as needed)?

thanks,
-marina

Jan Luehe wrote:
> On 08/25/08 09:33 PM, Tim Quinn wrote:
>
>> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>>
>>> Jan,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it's a problem for all the modules: in v2 all serious
>>> log messages were owned by the appserv-commons, and they went
>>> together to the corresponding area in v3 :(. To add to the
>>> complexity, in v3 some of our modules now have sub-modules, and it's
>>> a question which one should own the messages...
>>>
>>> May be we should switch to use JDK logger (and pass in the bundle name)?
>>
>> I've also been wondering - and asking - about this for a while. I
>> recall reading somewhere, some time ago, that the plan was indeed to
>> shift to using the JDK logger. There is a logging.properties in the
>> domains/${domain-name}/config directory, and that file's settings do
>> indeed affect logging if you use Logger.getLogger(someName). If you
>> do that in a @Service then it seems to work more smoothly if you
>> invoke Logger.getLogger in the postConstruct method. A static or
>> instance initializer does not seem guaranteed to pick up the GlassFish
>> logging.properties file in domains/${domain-name}/config.
>> There is also @Inject Logger logger which injects the global logger.
>> I do not know if there is a way to use that to get a logger more
>> specific to the current class or package or module.
>>
>> Further, I am not sure what if any effect the v2-style logging
>> settings in domain.xml have. A long time ago I tried an experiment
>> changing some of those but did not see any effect. Of course that
>> behavior may have changed since then.
>
>
> In V2, com.sun.enterprise.server.logging.ServerLogManager used to be
> responsible for initializing the various module loggers with their log
> levels specified in the <log-service> in domain.xml, and to add the
> FileandSyslogHandler to them.
>
> I believe in V3, the responsibility for doing this has been, or will be,
> delegated to each individual module.
>
> Maybe we can discuss logging at today's eng meeting? I will be joining
> late, since I have a meeting conflict.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan
>
>>
>> Because my experiments with LogDomains were not working but those
>> using the standard JDK logger were, and without guidelines for how to
>> proceed, I've been using the JDK-style logging in the classes I've
>> been working on lately in which I wanted to include or enhance logging
>> and it has seemed to be working well.
>>
>> For what it's worth...
>>
>> - Tim
>>
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