log4j: Why aren't my debug statements showing?

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I'm using JBoss 5.1 AS (on Mac 10.5.6, Java 1.6) and running a web application (WAR file). I have this log4j.xml file in my WEB-INF/classes directory:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">

  <appender name="CA" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
      <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-4r [%t] (%F:%L) %-5p %c %x - %m%n"/>
    </layout>
  </appender>

  <logger name="myco-galc-capitol-tours" >
    <level value="debug"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CA"/>
  </logger>

  <root>
    <priority value ="debug" />
    <appender-ref ref="CA"/>
  </root>

</log4j:configuration>

But this statement (from the myco.galc.capitol.tours.CapitolToursController class) produces no output in any of my log files ...

	private static final Log LOGGER = LogFactory
			.getLog(CapitolToursController.class.getCanonicalName());

	...

			LOGGER.debug("sending email.");

What am I doing wrong in my log4j configuration or where else should it be adjusted? Thanks, - Dave

[Jaikiran Pai]

What is "LogFactory" and "Log". Those don't belong to log4j. Are you using some other logging framework atop log4j?

[Dave Alvarado]

The imports for those are

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

But as I said, info statements and above are getting written to the logs so I'm wondering why the debug statements are not even though the log4j configuration explicitly lists debug. - Dave

[Paul Clapham]

So you have Apache Commons logging set up to use log4j as its output? Perhaps it has some configuration you have to set up to control the logging level as well.