Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

On May 18, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Howard Gilbert wrote:
> While I can come up with temporary workarounds for most things, one  
> clear change is that since logging is no longer configured in a  
> context listener, now the IdP will not initialize (it throws  
> NullPointerException) if no <Logging> tag is specified in its XML  
> configuration file (because it fails to initialize the "log"  
> variable and then dies when it tries to log something).  
> Furthermore, this particular parameter is not relative (through a  
> ShibResource) but must be an absolute path to a file name.
>
>
>
> I can do this, but its hard to distribute through the HEAD. I would  
> suggest that there be a default logging configuration if none is  
> provided (the obvious traditional one will do) since NPE is a bug  
> and needs to be addressed somehow.
> Otherwise, I need to configure a file in a reliable location, but I  
> really think it would be better to build the default in rather than  
> depending on it to be configured externally.

Umm...yeah.  That's definitely how the old logging loader worked.   
I've added this to my pre-beta TODO list.

Thanks,
Walter