Issue

• Whenever I am at a customer site and they are looking to migrate from a competitive app server they inevitably have log4j.jar in the lib directory of the WEB-INF folder of their web application. I was hoping with the 3-4 years of effort into EAP 5 this long standing issue would be corrected, but with the attached war file I am still seeing errors like this

Error message from EAP 5.0 Beta 2:

ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR A "org.jboss.logging.appender.FileAppender" object is not assignable to a "org.apache.log4j.Appender" variable.
ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR The class "org.apache.log4j.Appender" was loaded by
ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR [BaseClassLoader@6f531a15{vfsfile:/Users/jimtyrrell/Servers/jboss-eap-5.0/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/TestApplication.war/}] whereas object of type
ERROR [STDERR] log4j:ERROR "org.jboss.logging.appender.FileAppender" was loaded by

• Links to advice that does not appear to work:

http://www.jboss.org/feeds/post/how_do_i_use_my_own_log4j_properties_or_xml_file_in_jboss
This page implies to me that the lib directory is off of the root of *.war/lib and that is not right to me as I can browse to a jsp in the lib directory. Also this config file for a war does not work. The above advice is on several web sites, and it does not appear to work this not good.

• Testing with this jboss-app.xml file as suggested here results in errors at loading.

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-1088