What is right way to supply initialization for log4j2 in a Spring MVC Webapp using Java Config and no web.xml?

Question

I have a Spring MVC Web App (4.0) with log4j2. This webapp uses no web.xml and takes care of configuration through Java Config. Log4j2 configuration needs to take plac

Answer 1

I believe you can reconfigure log4j2 to a new config file during runtime like this.

     LoggerContext context = (LoggerContext)LogManager.getContext(false);
     context.setConfigLocation(URI.create("path to file"));
     context.reconfigure();

Could just add this to your onStartup.