Log4j EJB (no logging returned)

Using WLS 8.1 SP4 with Log4j (1.2.8)...
Have a Hibernate POJO classes packaged in a JAR which is used by a session EJB for database access. The EJB is in turn called via a WebService and both are packaged inside the same EAR.
Followed the instructions on the web site below:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/02/log4j_ejb.html
In other words, I updated the MANIFEST.MF file setting the Class-path variable to lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar and added the library to the WEB-INF/lib catalog in the WebService. Nothing happens. Thought maybe the log4j.properties file wasn't getting loaded. But hardcoded inte the EJB create method the PropertyConfigurator to a absolute path. Again nothing.
Can somebody bullet out the following information:
1) Where is the log4j.properties file keep? (i.e. directly by the CLASSPATH, as a part of the start-up properties "-D", or in the WEB-INF/classes directory)
2) How about the log4j-1.2.8.jar file (according to the WLS documentation that is the only version which works with SP4)? Just under WEB-INF/lib? Or mayble APP-INF/lib?
3) Anything special with Hibernate?
/ Matthew

Hi,
The EJBs don't have the visibility into web-inf\lib. You need to add the the
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--Sathish
<Matthew Young> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Using WLS 8.1 SP4 with Log4j (1.2.8)...
Have a Hibernate POJO classes packaged in a JAR which is used by a session
EJB for database access. The EJB is in turn called via a WebService and
both are packaged inside the same EAR.
Followed the instructions on the web site below:
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/02/log4j_ejb.html
In other words, I updated the MANIFEST.MF file setting the Class-path
variable to lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar and added the library to the WEB-INF/lib
catalog in the WebService. Nothing happens. Thought maybe the
log4j.properties file wasn't getting loaded. But hardcoded inte the EJB
create method the PropertyConfigurator to a absolute path. Again nothing.
Can somebody bullet out the following information:
1) Where is the log4j.properties file keep? (i.e. directly by the
CLASSPATH, as a part of the start-up properties "-D", or in the
WEB-INF/classes directory)
2) How about the log4j-1.2.8.jar file (according to the WLS documentation
that is the only version which works with SP4)? Just under WEB-INF/lib?
Or mayble APP-INF/lib?
3) Anything special with Hibernate?
/ Matthew

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