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Spring Tool Suite 3.6.1 and Pivotal tc Server Developer Edition logging ignored

I was trying to alter the logging that takes place with Pivotal tc Server Developer edition 3.0 and I found out that the java process that starts the server never reads the logging.properties file in catalina base.

I created a new Pivotal tc Server 3.0 with a new instance called diff-instance and added the bio profile. When it is finished a logging.properties file has been created in the /diff-instannce/conf folder. I started the server and stopped it and looked at the settings (F3 or open on the list of servers). It says:

configuration path:

option selected: Use tc Server installation (takes control of tc Server installation) server path (catalina.base): /diff-instance

Then I stop the server and modify the logging.properties file and noticed that none of the changes I make to this logging.properties file seems to ever be reflected in the tc Server.

I brought in my swiss army knife the good old sysinternals tools (www.sysinternals.com) and started procmon. To my great surprise the file logging.properties file in the catalina.base conf folder is never read by the javaw.exe process (only the logging.properties in /jre/lib folder is read). That explains what I saw.

I have 3 important questions related to this:

  1. Why is the logging.properties file never read?
  2. Where is the method to customize the Pivotal tc Server developer edition documented? I looked at the "Getting started with Pivotal tc Server" at http://tcserver.docs.pivotal.io/index.html in the section "tc Runtime Instance Configuration Files" on page 29 and it says this file should be used. Also the "Pivotal tc Server Administration" has a whole section "Configuring Logging for tc Runtime" on page 50 that keeps on talking about this same file.
  3. I know there is a lot of glue stuff between tc Server developer and STS. The whole thing about defining a new server and the options about kind of server locations to define as show below server locations are all very cool but where is the documentation for this stuff?

This page describes an older version of the tc server and how to change the logging. It also refers to the logging.properties file in catalina.base.

https://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric5/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.tc-server.2.6/admin/manual-logging.html

Solution

  • Actually, this was fixed by the STS group. See comment from Alex Boyko about the tc Server nightly update site http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/eclipse-integration-tcserver/nightly in JIRA STS-3998. In STS 3.6.3 if you select Help/Install new software and you paste this update site and select it you should be able to install a version of the tc Server integration in STS 3.6.3 that fixes this. This should be fixed in STS 3.6.4.