Wildfly 8.1 Log System

Question

I am trying to make my Web Services Application Log using Wildfly 8.1 Final Log System Categories.

My App declares

private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger("myapp");

It calls in parts of the code for

LOGGER.debug("something");

Using the log4j property file definition below it behaves as expected. The problem is when I access the Wildfly console (http://localhost:9990/console/App.html#logging) and update the Log Category named "myapp" from INFO to DEBUG. After tha I call my Web Service that calls the instruction LOGGER.debug("something"); inside it´s code.

The expected behavior is to show the "something" message written in my log file, but it does not happens because it behaves obeying only the log4j property file supplied below.

How to fix this?

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, stdout
log4j.logger.org.hibernate=INFO, stdout, myapp
log4j.logger.org.hibernate.SQL=INFO, stdout, myapp
log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql=ALL, stdout, myapp
log4j.logger.myappaudit=INFO, myappaudit
log4j.logger.myapp=INFO, stdout, myapp
log4j.logger.performance=INFO, myapp

#
#  default Appender 
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log4j.appender.stdout = org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target = System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %c{1} [%p] %C{1}.%M - %m%n

#
#  Appender for myappaudit
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log4j.appender.myappaudit = org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.myappaudit.File = ${jboss.server.log.dir}/logs/myappaudit.log
log4j.appender.myappaudit.Append = true
log4j.appender.myappaudit.DatePattern = '.'yyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.myappaudit.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.myappaudit.layout.ConversionPattern =  %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %c{1} [%p] %m%n

#
#  Appender for application
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log4j.appender.myapp = org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.myapp.File = ${jboss.server.log.dir}/logs/console.log
log4j.appender.myapp.Append = true
log4j.appender.myapp.DatePattern = '.'yyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.myapp.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.myapp.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %c{1} [%p] %m%n

#Spring logs
log4j.logger.org.springframework=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.springframework.security=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.springframework.ws=DEBUG

#Spring Transaction Logs
log4j.logger.org.springframework.orm.jpa=DEBUG
log4j.logger.org.springframework.transaction=DEBUG

#Spring Async Logs
log4j.logger.org.springframework.scheduling=ERROR

Answer 1

You will not be able to use the logger options in the console. The reason is that if you include a log4j config an entirely isolated logging instance is created for that deployment. If you want to use jboss's tools, you must remove your logging config and define in the standalone or domain xml. Alternatively, you can create your own servlet or mbean that is part of your deployment to make runtime adjustments to the logging level or any other changes, e.g adding or removing appenders