Question

We need to display JBoss log files from within our web application. Is it possible to achieve this without using ServerConfigLocator ? The application must be able to run also with Websphere and we don’t want dependencies on specific JARs.

Answer 1

JBoss’s defined log directory is held in the jboss.server.log.dir system property. You can resolve that directory to a java.io.File, and read the files inside.

File logDir = new File(System.getProperty("jboss.server.log.dir"));
logDir.list(); // etc etc

You can also get this through ServerConfig.getServerLogDir() (on JBoss 4.x, anyway), but you said you wanted to avoid JAR dependencies.