Specifying a different config file for Log4J
Sep 2nd
Generally, adding a log4j.properties file to the classpath is all that needed to bootstrap your Log4J runtime. In certain cases though you might want to override this behaviour.
I needed to do this recently and it took me a while to find out how to do it in the Log4J docs, so I though I’d make [...]
Getting Maven to work from behind a firewall
May 28th
Maven needs to access the Internet to download a number of things including POM files and dependent JAR files that are not held in your local repository. If you are trying to do this from behind a corportate firewall then you’ll need to configure Maven to work around it or you’ll get a load of [...]
