Hi,
That may be a good idea - to put all the properties in a separate project.
The reason my web app doesn't load the log4j.properties is because the wsad has a default ws-commons-logging.jar, and it was used instead of the commons-logging.jar from Jakatar. After I remove ws-commons-logging.jar from the classpath, the commons-loggin.jar from Jakatar is used and the log4j.properties is loaded from /WEB-INF/classes directory as expected.
Cheers,
Ping