In the above comment, you define a variable called "res" but refer to it as "res.dir". Is that by mistake. Anyway, even if no ClassCastException were thrown, the file property is still likely to reference an invalid string value. For example, "file://tmp/my.log" is *not* a valid input string for the constructor of FileOutputStream.

As for supporting java.util.Properties I don't think you can define a java.util.Properties instance in a web.xml file. Can you?

This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators.
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira