posted 16 years ago
Hi all,
I'm having an issue with Log4j and Aspectj. I've configured logging in my application using Aspects. I have defined pointcuts for all method in my app and before and after advice to log using commons logging. I use log4j as the logging implementation
In the aspect I create the logger
private Log log = LogFactory.getLog("trace");
and in the before and after advise I have simple log statements
log.debug("Entering Method");
I can see that the aspects are executing before and after each method and the debug statements are being executed.
I then config log4j loggers configuration as follows so that the entering & exiting messages only appear in the trace-file appender.
<logger name="com.myapp" additivity="false">
<level value="debug"/>
<appender-ref ref="trace-file" />
</logger>
<root>
<priority value="info" />
<appender-ref ref="console" />
<appender-ref ref="trace-file" />
</root>
However my debug log statments from the aspectj are not output on the com.myapp logger. If I use log.debug statement anywhere else my app the they are ouput successfully. Also if I change the root logger level to debug the aspectj log statements are output to my appenders.
What I can't understand is why the log statements from the aspects are not output on my custom logger.
Anyone got an example of this that I can see?
Thanks in advance