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Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:36:52 -0400
From: dboyer@ecal.com (Dave Boyer)
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Subject: Re: Logging to File
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Steve Weiss wrote:

> I'm doing something very similar, I put this in my application's
> web.xml:
>
>     <context-param>
>         <param-name>SYSLOG_FILE</param-name>
>
> <param-value>/home/steve/dev/java/webapps/currmit/logs/web.log</param-value>
>     </context-param>
>
> Then I read in the SYSLOG_FILE parameter when my servlet is initialized
> and open the file. Works fine for me (on Linux).
>

When you say you read in the SYSLOG_FILE parameter, what exactly do you mean?

Class and function preferrably and where you read and process this parameter...

Am I correct that the tomcat engine limits the access of a servlet to the system
it's
located on.  In other words, the classes are loaded within a sandbox of some
type
which limits the access of those files to system resources?
So, I can't write files all over the System the servlet runs on.

Am I correct that all JSP pages and all servlets within my web-app directory
have access to the same ServletContext instance? If so this is the place to put
my Logger.

I would like to initialize some Application wide objects the first time any
Servlet or JSP page is loaded.  I would like to create one instance of the
logger, and a connection pool for interacting with an XML datasource.  Is there
a way to do this without placing code in every single Servlet and JSP page to
ensure that initialization has taken place?