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Bug 352768

Summary: Tomcat INFO log messages are directed to System.err
Product: [RT] Virgo Reporter: Glyn Normington <glyn.normington>
Component: runtimeAssignee: Hristo Iliev <hsiliev>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: hsiliev
Version: 3.0.0.M06   
Target Milestone: 3.0.2.RELEASE   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Depends on: 355479    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Glyn Normington CLA 2011-07-21 10:37:14 EDT 
As noted in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=352212#c3, the JUL ConsoleHandler has the unfortunate property of redirecting all Tomcat logging output to System.err.

This causes users to think that something is broken when it's not. For example:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=rview&goto=699397#msg_699397

It has even confused committers, as in bug 352212!

We should consider using a better console handler in Virgo so that INFO logs are redirected to System.out and warnings and worse are redirected to System.err.
Comment 1 Hristo Iliev CLA 2011-10-21 10:30:02 EDT 
Fixed with bug 355479