Sounds like a bug, so I raised: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=373605 
Jan 
On 8 March 2012 09:03, Jeff Palmer  wrote: 
> Ever since 7.6 or 8.1, the two messages below do not get written to the 
> 20xx_xx_xx.stderrout.log.  They just go to start.log.  If you restart the 
> process all your logs are wiped out. 
> 
> Does anyone else get this?  Have tried both 8.1.0 & 7.6.1.  Was successful 
> with 7.5.4.  Have all on the same system & control which runs with symbolic 
> link pointer.  Find no differences in .xml files to cause this. 
> 
> Should I just over-ride the 2 log() methods, writing to System.out, adding a 
> timestamp, and move on? 
> - - - - - - - - - - - 
> public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet{ 
> 
>     protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse 
> response){ 
>         try{ 
>             super.log("I am a message"); 
>             System.out.println("This does go the right place"); 
>         } 
>         catch(Throwable th){ 
>             super.log("I am an error", th); 
>         } 
>     } 
> } 
> 
> 
> 
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