I am building a RollingFileAppender to split the logs into directories/files based on the logger name. The goal is to have a single Appender "A" that takes in a bunch of loggers and spits the logs out into separate RollingFileAppenders based on the logger name. Basically my plan is to have an Appender that contains a HashMap of LoggerName (String) to RollingFileAppender. When I see a name for the first time I create a RollingFileAppender for it and place it into the HashSet. My problem is that there is going to be a single RollingPolicy/Triggering Policy for "A" which needs to get duplicated to the subappenders. The issue with this is that I can't use the same object since i need to modify the filepattern to have the correct file names on it. The problem with that is that the object isn't cloneable. Can anyone think of a good way to handle this? Or am I going about this all wrong? -Eric