A note about logging configuration

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/23/14, 8:19 PM, "Tom Zeller" <tzeller at dragonacea.biz> wrote:
>
>Sigh. I remember jetty-dev commenting that it is really difficult to
>not have an unpacked war. Kinda makes all these idp.home shenanigans
>seem somewhat unnecessary too. But I'm glad we did not rule out
>virtualization (via not requiring system properties).

I know, but for all Tomcat's problems, it doesn't seem to have any major
difficulty with that if the app is well-behaved. Maybe they just do the
same copying Jetty does behind the scenes, but they don't expose options
that let you shoot yourself in the foot.

Also, this works fine in older Jetty versions. It was when they went to 8
that all this started breaking left and right for me.

But anyway, having the war unpacked gives us a location to mount into
containers or it just takes a few script lines to pack it.

And the real reason why this is important is that when it comes to war
trees, it's very common to end up overwriting yourself because of the way
containers work. Having things outside the war tree, even if the war has
to be unpacked, is much safer.

-- Scott