Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

I just applied a patch from Chad that should fix the defaulting for the 
log configuration.

-Walter


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.