JBoss development, A new message was posted in the thread "Log4j inside Jboss": http://community.jboss.org/message/529364#529364 Author : Felipe Armoni Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/komyg Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I've created a Web Service application inside Jboss 4.2.2-GA and I want to set up the jboss log4j configuration so that my Web Service logs inside a custom log file (not inside the server.xml). To do this I've altered the jboss-log4j.xml file to create another appender. This file is below:   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd"><!-- ===================================================================== --><!--                                                                       --><!--  Log4j Configuration                                                  --><!--                                                                       --><!-- ===================================================================== --><!-- $Id: jboss-log4j.xml 65459 2007-09-19 00:25:51Z mailto:dimitris@jboss.org $ --><!--   | For more configuration infromation and examples see the Jakarta Log4j   | owebsite: http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j --><log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/" debug="false">   <!-- ================================= -->   <!-- Preserve messages in a local file -->   <!-- ================================= -->   <!-- A time/date based rolling appender -->   <appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.DailyRollingFileAppender">      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>      <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.log.dir}/server.log"/>      <param name="Append" value="false"/>      <!-- Rollover at midnight each day -->      <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd"/>      <!-- Rollover at the top of each hour            -->      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">         <!-- The default pattern: Date Priority Category Message\n -->         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %m%n"/>         <!-- The full pattern: Date MS Priority Category (Thread:NDC) Message\n         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5r %-5p (%t:%x) %m%n"/>          -->      </layout>   </appender>   <!-- A size based file rolling appender          <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %m%n"/>     </layout>            </appender>   -->   <!-- ============================== -->   <!-- Append messages to the console -->   <!-- ============================== -->   <appender name="CONSOLE" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>      <param name="Target" value="System.out"/>      <param name="Threshold" value="INFO"/>      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">         <!-- The default pattern: Date Priority Category Message\n -->         <!-- <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %m%n"/> -->           <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-5p (%t:%x) %m%n"/>      </layout>   </appender>     <!-- ====================== -->   <!-- More Appender examples -->   <!-- ====================== -->   <!-- Buffer events and log them asynchronously   <appender name="ASYNC" class="org.apache.log4j.AsyncAppender">     <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>     <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>     <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>     <appender-ref ref="SMTP"/>   </appender>   -->   <!-- EMail events to an administrator   <appender name="SMTP" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender">     <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>     <param name="Threshold" value="ERROR"/>     <param name="To" value="mailto:admin@myhost.domain.com"/>     <param name="From" value="mailto:nobody@myhost.domain.com"/>     <param name="Subject" value="JBoss Sever Errors"/>     <param name="SMTPHost" value="localhost"/>     <param name="BufferSize" value="10"/>     <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">       <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%d,%c] %m%n"/>     </layout>   </appender>   -->   <!-- Syslog events   <appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">     <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>     <param name="Facility" value="LOCAL7"/>     <param name="FacilityPrinting" value="true"/>     <param name="SyslogHost" value="localhost"/>     <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">       <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%d,%c] %m%n"/>     </layout>   </appender>   -->   <!-- Log events to JMS (requires a topic to be created)      -->   <!-- Log events through SNMP      -->   <!--  Emit events as JMX notifications            <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %m"/>      </layout>   </appender>   -->      <!-- ================ -->   <!-- Limit categories -->   <!-- ================ -->   <!-- Limit the org.apache category to INFO as its DEBUG is verbose -->   <category name="org.apache">      <priority value="INFO"/>   </category>   <!-- Limit the jacorb category to WARN as its INFO is verbose -->   <category name="jacorb">      <priority value="WARN"/>   </category>      <!-- Limit the org.jgroups category to WARN as its INFO is verbose -->   <category name="org.jgroups">      <priority value="WARN"/>   </category>      <!-- Limit the org.quartz category to INFO as its DEBUG is verbose -->   <category name="org.quartz">      <priority value="INFO"/>   </category>   <!-- Limit JBoss categories      -->   <!-- Limit the JSR77 categories -->   <category name="org.jboss.management">      <priority value="INFO"/>   </category>   <!-- Show the evolution of the DataSource pool in the logs inUse/Available/Max      -->      <!-- Limit the org.jboss.serial (jboss-serialization) to INFO as its DEBUG is verbose -->   <category name="org.jboss.serial">      <priority value="INFO"/>   </category>      <!-- Decrease the priority threshold for the org.jboss.varia category      -->   <!-- Enable JBossWS message tracing      -->   <!--      | An example of enabling the custom TRACE level priority that is used      | by the JBoss internals to diagnose low level details. This example      | turns on TRACE level msgs for the org.jboss.ejb.plugins package and its      | subpackages. This will produce A LOT of logging output.      |      | Note: since jboss AS 4.2.x, the trace level is supported natively by      | log4j, so although the custom org.jboss.logging.XLevel priority will      | still work, there is no need to use it. The two examples that follow      | will both enable trace logging.      -->     <!--       | Logs these events to SNMP:           - server starts/stops           - cluster evolution (node death/startup)           - When an EJB archive is deployed (and associated verified messages)           - When an EAR archive is deployed                  -->   <!-- Clustering logging -->   <!-- Uncomment the following to redirect the org.jgroups and      org.jboss.ha categories to a cluster.log file.          <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p %m%n"/>        -->      <!-- Afis Appender -->      <appender name="AfisAppender" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.DailyRollingFileAppender">      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>      <param name="File" value="${jboss.server.log.dir}/afis_interface.log"/>      <param name="Append" value="false"/>      <!-- Rollover at midnight each day -->      <param name="DatePattern" value="'.'yyyy-MM-dd"/>      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">         <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p (%t:%x) %m%n"/>      </layout>   </appender>      <category name="AfisLogger">       <appender-ref ref="AfisAppender"/>       <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>       <priority value="DEBUG"/>   </category>      <!-- ======================= -->   <!-- Setup the Root category -->   <!-- ======================= -->       After that I created a logger inside my Web Service with the same name as the category tag and logged the message received by the service:   logger = Logger.getLogger("AfisLogger"); logger.debug(message);   However I noticed that even though the log file afis_interfaces.log is indeed created, it remains empty as if I wasn't writing anything to it. Please help me. Thanks, Komyg -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/529364#529364