[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4632?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s... ] Brian Stansberry commented on AS7-4632: --------------------------------------- Adding this introduces a new contract that all subsystems (including those that are not part of the AS codebase or even developed under jboss.org) will have to fulfill. To do it properly we would have to have core AS expose some sort of API to subsystems to let them construct loggers by passing in the subsystem name and the "subcategory" name, and the core would create a logger e.g. "org.jboss.as." + subsystemName + "." + subcategory. Otherwise we're just hoping subsystems create categories that follow some naming pattern. If we can't guarantee that subsystems will respect this contract, we'll only have a broken feature that will result in bug reports against the logging subsystem, reports that the logging subsystem devs can't fix. Also, I think when users like this idea, they probably have a hope that everything logically associated with the subsystem will be affected. Many of our subsystems have the bulk of their functionality coming from external libs, and those external libs are not going to be affected by this, even if the integration layer respects it. So putting "subsystem=jpa" to TRACE is not going to affect how Hibernate logs. Same for "subsystem=web" and JBoss Web, etc etc. All this said, it's a nice dream and one we should keep in mind. -- 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