For JDBCStore rev. 1.23 it is working fine. I found that Log4jLogger class doesn't set level for newly created logger. I'm working with PostgreSQL. I'm using log4j for logging purposes: log4j.rootLogger=INFO,A1 log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender My Domain.xml contains: <slide logger="log4j.Log4jLogger" logger-level="6"> If I set it simply to <slide>, it works fine. For J2EEStore it is ok in both cases. My stack trace: 23 Jun 2005 14:17:45 - org.apache.slide.common.Domain - INFO - Auto-Initializing Domain 23 Jun 2005 14:17:45 - org.apache.slide.common.Domain - INFO - Configuration found in classpath 23 Jun 2005 14:17:45 - org.apache.slide.common.Domain - INFO - Domain configuration : {org.apache.slide.lock=true, org.apache.slide.versioncontrol=true, org.apache.slide.debug=true, org.apache.slide.search=true, org.apache.slide.security=true, org.apache.slide.urlEncoding=UTF-8, org.apache.slide.domain=/home/tomek/workspace/SlideTestClient/Domain.xml} 2005-06-23 14:17:46,687 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Domain Initializing Domain 2005-06-23 14:17:47,314 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Domain Domain configuration : {org.apache.slide.lock=true, org.apache.slide.versioncontrol=true, org.apache.slide.debug=true, org.apache.slide.search=true, org.apache.slide.security=true, org.apache.slide.urlEncoding=UTF-8, org.apache.slide.domain=/home/tomek/workspace/SlideTestClient/Domain.xml} 2005-06-23 14:17:47,317 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Domain Domain parameters: {logger-level=6, versioncontrol-exclude=, auto-version=checkout-checkin, historypath=/history, checkin-fork=forbidden, workingresourcepath=/workingresource, workspacepath=/workspace, default=slide, auto-version-control=true, logger=log4j.Log4jLogger, checkout-fork=forbidden} 2005-06-23 14:17:47,318 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Domain Initializing namespace : slide 2005-06-23 14:17:47,357 WARN org.apache.slide.common.Domain Loading of create_store_listener class failed: org.apache.slide.webdav.util.UriHandler 2005-06-23 14:17:47,364 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Loading namespace slide parameters 2005-06-23 14:17:47,456 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Loading namespace definition 2005-06-23 14:17:47,539 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace nodestore: org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.JDBCStore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,603 WARN org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.AbstractRDBMSStore The maxPooledConnections configuration attribute is deprecated, please use dbcp.maxActive instead. 2005-06-23 14:17:47,647 INFO org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.AbstractRDBMSStore Loading and registering driver 'org.postgresql.Driver' 2005-06-23 14:17:47,660 INFO org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.AbstractRDBMSStore Using DBCP pooling 2005-06-23 14:17:47,661 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace securitystore references nodestore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,661 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace lockstore references nodestore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,662 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace revisiondescriptorsstore references nodestore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,662 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace revisiondescriptorstore references nodestore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,663 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace contentstore: org.apache.slide.store.txfile.TxFileContentStore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,795 INFO file-content-store File Store configured to /home/tomek/slide/data/store/content, working directory /home/tomek/slide/data/work/content 2005-06-23 14:17:47,796 INFO file-content-store Set timeout to 120 2005-06-23 14:17:47,824 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace propertiesindexer: org.apache.slide.index.lucene.LucenePropertiesIndexer 2005-06-23 14:17:47,863 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace contentindexer: org.apache.slide.index.lucene.LuceneContentIndexer 2005-06-23 14:17:47,869 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace sequencestore references nodestore 2005-06-23 14:17:47,873 INFO org.apache.slide.util.logger Disabling cache timeout for store DgaArchive 2005-06-23 14:17:47,874 INFO org.apache.slide.util.logger Setting object cache size for store DgaArchive to 10000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,895 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting permission cache size for store DgaArchive to 10000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,898 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting lock cache size for store DgaArchive to 10000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,899 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting descriptors cache size for store DgaArchive to 10000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,899 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting descriptor cache size for store DgaArchive to 10000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,900 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting content caching for store DgaArchive to false 2005-06-23 14:17:47,901 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting content cache size for store DgaArchive to 10000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,902 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting content cache byte size for store DgaArchive to 10000000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,903 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting transaction content cache size for store DgaArchive to 1000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,903 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting transaction content cache byte size for store DgaArchive to 1000000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,904 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Setting maximum byte size for content cache entry for store DgaArchive to 50000 2005-06-23 14:17:47,905 INFO org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore Enabling full caching causing low isolation 2005-06-23 14:17:47,933 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Registering Store DgaArchive (class org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore) with parameters {} on scope / 2005-06-23 14:17:47,960 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Initializing Store DgaArchive(org.apache.slide.store.ExtendedStore) 2005-06-23 14:17:48,099 WARN org.apache.slide.common.Domain Loading of redirector class failed: org.apache.slide.webdav.util.DeltavUriRedirector 2005-06-23 14:17:48,474 INFO org.apache.slide.index.lucene.LuceneContentIndexer using analyzer: org.apache.lucene.analysis.SimpleAnalyzer 2005-06-23 14:17:48,493 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Loading namespace slide base data 2005-06-23 14:17:49,554 ERROR org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Unable to read Namespace base configuration file : 2005-06-23 14:17:49,559 ERROR org.apache.slide.common.Namespace java.lang.NullPointerExceptionjava.lang.NullPointerException at log4j.Log4jLogger.fromLevel(Log4jLogger.java:230) at log4j.Log4jLogger.getLoggerLevel(Log4jLogger.java:81) at org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.JDBCStore.logConnectionPoolStatistics(JDBCStore.java:464) at org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.JDBCStore.connect(JDBCStore.java:333) at org.apache.slide.common.AbstractXAServiceBase.connect(AbstractXAServiceBase.java:130) at org.apache.slide.store.AbstractStore.connect(AbstractStore.java:222) at org.apache.slide.common.AbstractServiceBase.connectIfNeeded(AbstractServiceBase.java:192) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.connectService(Namespace.java:576) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.retrieveStore(Namespace.java:675) at org.apache.slide.common.Uri.parseUri(Uri.java:348) at org.apache.slide.common.Uri.<init>(Uri.java:67) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.getUri(Namespace.java:724) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.getUri(Namespace.java:704) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.loadBaseData(Namespace.java:835) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.initNamespace(Domain.java:883) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.init(Domain.java:462) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.selfInit(Domain.java:816) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.getDefaultNamespace(Domain.java:222) at my.app.SlideVersionsTest.<init>(SlideVersionsTest.java:56) at my.app.SlideVersionsTest.main(SlideVersionsTest.java:482) 2005-06-23 14:17:49,567 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Namespace Loading namespace slide configuration 2005-06-23 14:17:49,601 ERROR org.apache.slide.common.Domain java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at log4j.Log4jLogger.fromLevel(Log4jLogger.java:230) at log4j.Log4jLogger.getLoggerLevel(Log4jLogger.java:81) at org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.JDBCStore.logConnectionPoolStatistics(JDBCStore.java:464) at org.apache.slide.store.impl.rdbms.JDBCStore.connect(JDBCStore.java:333) at org.apache.slide.common.AbstractXAServiceBase.connect(AbstractXAServiceBase.java:130) at org.apache.slide.store.AbstractStore.connect(AbstractStore.java:222) at org.apache.slide.common.AbstractServiceBase.connectIfNeeded(AbstractServiceBase.java:192) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.connectService(Namespace.java:576) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.retrieveStore(Namespace.java:675) at org.apache.slide.common.Uri.parseUri(Uri.java:346) at org.apache.slide.common.Uri.<init>(Uri.java:67) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.getUri(Namespace.java:724) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.getUri(Namespace.java:704) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.getUri(Namespace.java:692) at org.apache.slide.common.NamespaceConfig.getActionNode(NamespaceConfig.java:1052) at org.apache.slide.common.NamespaceConfig.getConfiguredNode(NamespaceConfig.java:801) at org.apache.slide.common.NamespaceConfig.initializeNamespaceConfig(NamespaceConfig.java:671) at org.apache.slide.common.Namespace.loadConfiguration(Namespace.java:906) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.initNamespace(Domain.java:888) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.init(Domain.java:462) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.selfInit(Domain.java:816) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.getDefaultNamespace(Domain.java:222) at my.app.SlideVersionsTest.<init>(SlideVersionsTest.java:56) at my.app.SlideVersionsTest.main(SlideVersionsTest.java:482) 2005-06-23 14:17:49,604 INFO org.apache.slide.common.Domain Domain initialization complete Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.slide.common.NamespaceConfig.getParameter(NamespaceConfig.java:568) at org.apache.slide.util.NamespaceConfigUtil.getSecurityImplementation(NamespaceConfigUtil.java:70) at org.apache.slide.common.NamespaceAccessTokenImpl.<init>(NamespaceAccessTokenImpl.java:76) at org.apache.slide.common.Domain.accessNamespace(Domain.java:252) at my.app.SlideVersionsTest.<init>(SlideVersionsTest.java:56) at my.app.SlideVersionsTest.main(SlideVersionsTest.java:482)