Question

I don’t want to configure the logging using the standalone.xml or CLI, because it requires additional steps for my colleagues to get a working development environment. I want to have these configuration files checked in with our source code and automatically applied at deployment time.

With JBoss 5 there was the possibility to declare logging in the jboss-log4j.xml. Is there an equivalent to this file in JBoss 7, too?

We want to use slf4j and logback.

Answer 1

You can add a logback configuration to your application. You would need to include logback in your application. You might have to use a jboss-deployment-structure.xml, similar to the log4j exclusion one, to exclude the org.slf4j module. This will only configure logging for your application though.

If you’re concern is just getting the logging subsystem configured there are a couple other possibilities that could work depending on your environment.

The first and one that would work with any environment is create a CLI script that could be checked in and run.

${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect --file path/to/script.cli

If you’re using maven the second possibility would be to use the maven plugin. You can execute CLI commands with the plugin. Just add the execute-commands goal to run before the deploy goal runs.