Author: kkolinko
Date: Sat Mar 19 03:00:38 2011
New Revision: 1083135

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1083135&view=rev
Log:
Improve the logging documentation

Modified:
    tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/logging.xml

Modified: tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/logging.xml
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/logging.xml?rev=1083135&r1=1083134&r2=1083135&view=diff
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--- tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/logging.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/trunk/webapps/docs/logging.xml Sat Mar 19 03:00:38 2011
@@ -375,10 +375,28 @@ java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatt
 
   <section name="Using Log4j">
     <p>
-      This section explains how to configure Tomcat to use log4j rather than
-      java.util.logging for all Tomcat's internal logging. The following steps
-      describe configuring log4j to output Tomcat's internal logging to a file
-      named tomcat.log.
+      This section explains how to configure Tomcat to use
+      <a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/";>log4j</a> rather than
+      java.util.logging for all Tomcat's internal logging.
+    </p>
+    <p>Note, that</p>
+    <ul>
+        <li>This exposes log4j libraries to the web applications through the
+        Common classloader. See <a href="class-loader-howto.html">class 
loading</a>
+        for details. The web applications using
+        <a href="http://commons.apache.org/logging";>Apache Commons Logging</a>
+        library are likely to automatically choose log4j as the underlying
+        logging implementation.</li>
+        <li>The <code>java.util.logging</code> API is still available, for
+        those who use it directly. Removal of the
+        <code>${catalina.base}/conf/logging.properties</code> file, mentioned
+        as one of the steps below, causes it to fallback to the default
+        configuration configured in JRE, which is to use a ConsoleHandler and
+        do not create any files.</li>
+    </ul>
+    <p>
+      The following steps describe configuring log4j to output Tomcat's
+      internal logging.
     </p>
 
     <ol>



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