Commons Logging with Protomatter

[James Adams]

I am having trouble using Protomatter as the logging package as explained here.
I have a commons-logging.properties file which specifies using com.protomatter.syslog.commons.SyslogChannelLogFactory as the implementation of org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory. I launch my program in debug mode in Eclipse, and I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.protomatter.syslog.commons.SyslogChannelLogFactory   (Caused by java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.protomatter.syslog.commons.SyslogChannelLogFactory  )
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory$2.run(LogFactory.java:579)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.newFactory(LogFactory.java:517)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getFactory(LogFactory.java:308)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:351)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractApplicationContext.java:130)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractApplicationContext.java:158)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:67)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractXmlApplicationContext.<init>(AbstractXmlApplicationContext.java:49)
at org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.<init>(FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.java:86)
at org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.<init>(FileSystemXmlApplicationContext.java:74)
at com.coldspark.filter.framework.context.FilterFrameworkApplicationContext.<init>(FilterFrameworkApplicationContext.java:17)
at com.coldspark.filter.framework.Start.main(Start.java:20)    

The protomatter.jar is in the classpath for the project, I can see this as well in the debug launch options.

Can anyone advise as to what the problem might be? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


--James

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to the Other Open Source Projects forum.

[James Adams]

The problem has disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared. No clue as to why the problem went away.

--James

[James Adams]

This error has reappeared now that I am running this program on a Linux box from a run script which includes the protomatter.jar on the classpath. I can't figure out why the class com.protomatter.syslog.commons.SyslogChannelLogFactory can't be found since the JAR containing this class is one the classpath. Is there perhaps another class loader which runs without the script's classpath setting? BTW (I don't think this has any real relevance) this application is using the Spring framework (v1.2.8).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


--James