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There does not seem to be a clear winner in this department. Here is what I looked at that appear to be popular via Google searches.

logroate - use what Ubuntu uses. Some possible references,

http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2008/02/how-to-use-logrotate-with-apaches.html - talks about using logrotate with Tomcat without requiring a restart to rollover log file.

Vlogger - Similar (and intended as a replacement for) cronolog or httplog. This looks really easy to use, creates symlinks and can can hook into a database. On the negative side, the package seemed last updated in 2005.
Cronolog - the recommended solution from the Apache2 Log Files documentation but it was last updated in 2002. The biggest negative, I could not in 5 minutes and never bothered to go further on figuring out how to pipe for rollover and how to split at the same time.

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