Resolved : Logging in Jboss EAP 6 (JBoss AS7), Spring using Log4j

Removed

I was for a good time wondering why my Log4j is logging only the messages coming from my classes but not frameworks like  Spring, JDBC Template, CSveed. Every think was well configured, no error messages but I see framework messages only in the server.log.

 

So finally, I found the right steps to do.

Step 1:

Exclude Logging from JBoss. This previous article explains how to do.
So here is my jboss-deployment-structure.xml :

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<jboss-deployment-structure> <deployment> <!-- Add this line in the server lauch parameter : -Dorg.jboss.as.logging.per-deployment=false --> <exclusions> <module name="org.apache.log4j"/> <module name="org.apache.commons.logging"/> <module name="org.slf4j" /> <module name="org.slf4j.impl" /> </exclusions> </deployment> </jboss-deployment-structure>

Step 2:

Put you log4j.xml or log4j.properties in your classpath. In a Maven project, it should be under "\src\main\resources". Othrwhise, you can fix the classpath in the web.xml

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<listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class> </listener> <context-param> <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>classpath:/main/resources/META-INF/log4j.xml</param-value> </context-param>

Step 3:

So Now, we need to add the required jar, AND Exclude some Jars. In the pom.xml, we need to exclude commons-logging from Spring-context jar and we need to add slf4j-api, slf4j-log4j12, jcl-over-slf4j, log4j.

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<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <version>${slf4j-log4j12.version}</version> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId> <version>${slf4j-log4j12.version}</version> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId> <version>${slf4j-log4j12.version}</version> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>log4j</groupId> <artifactId>log4j</artifactId> <version>${log4j.version}</version> </dependency>

So this step was the latest and Important step that I have discovered and which blocked my logging before.