Using Java Logging with Tomcat

Question

Hi in a previous non Tomcat project I wrote some classes that used the java.util.logging library that comes with java 1.4 quite successfully. I am now trying to use the same classes with Tomcat 5.0 but it doesnt like it. With the logging classes you can provide a configuration class which you define with a property "java.util.logging.config.class", I put the class in my WEB_INF\classes with all the other classes.
When I run with Tomcat i have a servlet that does the following to try and initilse the logging
com.appserver.util.logging.LogProperties.setLevelFromParametersFromPrefs();
System.getProperties().setProperty("java.util.logging.config.class", "com.appserver.util.logging.LogProperties");
LogManager.getLogManager().readConfiguration();
it complains it cant find the class, when running readConfiguration(), (The 1st two lines run ok). I think the problem is to do with Tomcat classloader, with a simple Java application the classes would be expected to be on the system classpath, but on Tomcat the system classpath only contains bootstrap.jar.
I realise I could probably get things working using Apaches log4j instead but it seems a bit silly to use that when there is a perfectly adequate logger built into the language now.
Anyone done this ?

Answer 1

OK
Ive changed my code from
com.appserver.util.logging.LogProperties.setLevelFromParametersFromPrefs();
System.getProperties().setProperty("java.util.logging.config.class", "com.appserver.util.logging.LogProperties");
LogManager.getLogManager().readConfiguration();to
com.appserver.util.logging.LogProperties.setLevelFromParametersFromPrefs();
LogManager.getLogManager().readConfiguration(com.appserver.util.logging.LogProperties.getPropertiesAsStream());Now I dont get any errors and only messages for the LEVEL is set to the value I specify in my LogProperties class are displayed. However I also specify a Formatter to use for console output but Tomcat just seems to ignore it and uses its own default formatter. Any ideas...please !