Log4j.properties location for ant and kodo tools

Question

Greetings all
Is it possible to configure the kodo ant tasks,
such as jdoc (kodo.ant.JDOEnhancerTask) to use
a log4j.properties file that is not in the
classpath?
We generally have our log4j.properties
file in a separate location away from the classpath
and for standard junit and java ant targets we can
set it's location via a jvmarg...
Version: 3.0.0
Thanks
droo.

Answer 1

Ok thanks for the help.
Perhaps I could suggest for a future version that the
Kodo Ant Tasks include the ability to specify a "jvmarg"
like you can for java and junit targets now, for example:
<taskdef
name="jdoc"
classname="kodo.ant.JDOEnhancerTask"
classpathref="compile.path" />
<jdoc>
<fileset refid="all.jdo.files" />
<classpath refid="other.path" />
<config propertiesFile="${kodo.properties}"/>
<jvmarg value="-Dlog4j.properties=file:///my/log4j/config" /
>
<jvmarg value="-Djava.compiler=NONE" />
<jvmarg value="-Dfred=mary" />
</jdoc>
But if not then it's ok too :) Thanks again.
droo.
Droo-
I'm not aware of an ant task to set system properties. You could
specify it on the command line. E.g.,:
ant -Dlog4j.configuration=/my/log4j/config mytarget
You could also install beanshell and use the beanshell target to set
it. E.g.:
<target name="setlog4jproperty">
<script language="beanshell"><![CDATA[
               System.setProperty ("log4j.configuration", "/my/log4j/config");
]]> ]]></script>
</target>
See the ant documentation for more on the required dependencies for
beanshell.
In article <[email protected]>, droo wrote:
Yes of course, but the real question is...
How do I specify a system property for a
kodo ant task?
Sorry if this question is too stupid!
Here is what I have...
<taskdef
name="jdoc"
classname="kodo.ant.JDOEnhancerTask"
classpathref="compile-path" />
<jdoc>
<fileset refid="all-jdo-files" />
<classpath refid="post-compile-path" />
<config propertiesFile="${nf.kodo.properties}"/>
</jdoc>
In <[email protected]> Marc Prud'hommeaux wrote:
Droo-
I think you can specify the "log4j.configuration" system property.
Take a look at:
http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/manual.html
In article <[email protected]>, droo wrote:
Greetings all
Is it possible to configure the kodo ant tasks,
such as jdoc (kodo.ant.JDOEnhancerTask) to use
a log4j.properties file that is not in the
classpath?
We generally have our log4j.properties
file in a separate location away from the classpath
and for standard junit and java ant targets we can
set it's location via a jvmarg...
Version: 3.0.0
Thanks
droo.