I was really surprised that log4j doesn’t have any facility to set the log file location with a relative path. Hard to build a portable application if you need to set the full value of a local path. And don’t talk to me about config files, because that requires reading documentation, which is only read less than it is written.
So, if you use the standard log4j servlet approach to start your logging, you can weave in the following to set your path relative to your app:
org.w3c.dom.NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("param");;
org.w3c.dom.Node node = null;//nodes.item(0);
org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap nodeMap = null;
for(int i=0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++)
{
    node = nodes.item(i);
    nodeMap = node.getAttributes();
    if(nodeMap.getNamedItem("name")
        .getNodeValue().equals("File"))
    {
        node = nodeMap.getNamedItem("value");
        outputFile = new File(getServletContext().getRealPath(node.getNodeValue()));
        outPutPath = outputFile.getAbsolutePath();
        outPutPath = outPutPath.replace('', '/');
        node.setNodeValue(outPutPath);
    }
}
Then you can set the log location to outPutPath.
Enjoy 🙂
I’m always forgetting what ports to set for PCAnywhere use. This time I thought I’d share the link I found on PCAnywhere ports at http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/pcanywhere_ip_port_usage.htm.
Though these days I’m using TeamViewer, which has no problem with firewalls though does get filtered by some networks admins.
If you chose the Facelet aspect for your WLP project in 10.3.2, your portlets will use the “native” (i.e., WLP-only) portlet bridge rather than the “JSR-329” (i.e., crystal ball) bridge. In case you need to reuse your portlets in another portal framework.
I haven’t had time to try it out, but in theory one could write the .portlet file by hand and still get the best of both worlds.
If you see:
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.bea.portlet.container.ActionRequestImpl
Try adding the following:
import javax.portlet.ActionRequest;
…
ActionRequest actionRequest = (ActionRequest) ctx.getExternalContext().getRequest();
HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest) actionRequest.getAttribute(“javax.servlet.request”);