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Hibernate version: 3.0 rc1

Is it possible to use XML config file intead of properties one for Log4J???

Thanks a lot

Z...

Ok i just noticed several things by experimenting:

Yes. Both XML and properties config files for Log4J will work.
That is nice, but....


Log4J config files HAVE to be at the root of compiled classes.

for example:
For:
/build/classes/org/company/blah/blah/*.class
log4j.xml has to be under /build/classes/
If I put it anywhere else it wont be "picked up" which contradicts with documentation (it says it just has to be in the classpath)...


Now, I made a nice package for my hibernate configs like
/src/java/org/company/webapp/hibernate/

where I keep my hibernate config file.
I would like to keep other config files that relate to hibernate under the same package (log4j.xml, oscache.properties, ehcache.xml, etc, etc)...

It would be nice if one could specify the hibernate.cfg.xml the location of other relevant config files.

Um thats the general definition of "in the classpath".

And it does not *have* to be in the classpath. Have you taken a look at the log4j documentation? Oddly enough it describes configuring log4j ;)

The other stuff is completely superfluous as they all relate to caches. Simply plugin a custom CacheProvider which reads the configuration file from where ever you want.

Hi Steve

Thanks for the reply. I used log4j for quite some time now, and I understand that you can specify the location of the config file. But I don't want to write the unnecessary code that will initialize log4j when hibernate is allready doing that.

But, as I allready mentioned, hibernate will initialize the log4j only if it finds the config file under the "root" of the class package (according to the tests I did).

So the following wont work:

/org/company/package1/*.class
/org/company/package2/*.class
/org/company/hibernate/hibernate.cfg.xml
/org/company/hibernate/oscache.properties
/org/company/hibernate/log4j.xml

untill I move log4j.xml under / as in
/log4j.xml


Furthermore, the cache config file will work fine also being in any (sub) package...



I hope this clarifies my problem.

Z...

hibernate does not configure anything explicitly - that would be bad behavior.

it uses common-logging which does it thing - using an already configured log system.

hibernate does not configure anything explicitly - that would be bad behavior.

it uses common-logging which does it thing - using an already configured log system.