Right, this is a limitation. I've been told there might be some log4j magic that can fix that (and there must be, since I don't think commons-logging suffers the problem) but I have not had time to figure out what it is. Perhaps its as simple as futzing with the stack frames (ick). If you would like to investigate (start looking at commons-logging) and come up with a fix, that would be awesome. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3991675#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...