Question

I haven’t been able to find any documentation on how to configure Hibernate’s logging using the XML style configuration file for Log4j.

Is this even possible or do I have use a properties style configuration file to control Hibernate’s logging?

If anyone has any information or links to documentation it would appreciated.

EDIT:
Just to clarify, I am looking for an example of the actual XML syntax to control Hibernate.

EDIT2:
Here is what I have in my XML config file.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?> <!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM 'log4j.dtd'>  <log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j='http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/'>     <appender name='console' class='org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender'>         <param name='Threshold' value='info'/>         <param name='Target' value='System.out'/>         <layout class='org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout'>             <param name='ConversionPattern' value='%d{ABSOLUTE} [%t] %-5p %c{1} - %m%n'/>         </layout>     </appender>     <appender name='rolling-file' class='org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender'>         <param name='file' value='Program-Name.log'/>         <param name='MaxFileSize' value='1000KB'/>     <!-- Keep one backup file -->         <param name='MaxBackupIndex' value='4'/>         <layout class='org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout'>             <param name='ConversionPattern' value='%d [%t] %-5p %l - %m%n'/>         </layout>     </appender>      <root>         <priority value ='debug' />         <appender-ref ref='console' />         <appender-ref ref='rolling-file' />     </root> </log4j:configuration> 

Logging works fine but I am looking for a way to step down and control the hibernate logging in way that separate from my application level logging, as it currently is flooding my logs. I have found examples of using the preference file to do this, I was just wondering how I can do this in a XML file.

Answer 1

From http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-logging

Here’s the list of logger categories:

Category                    Function  org.hibernate.SQL           Log all SQL DML statements as they are executed org.hibernate.type          Log all JDBC parameters org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl  Log all SQL DDL statements as they are executed org.hibernate.pretty        Log the state of all entities (max 20 entities) associated with the session at flush time org.hibernate.cache         Log all second-level cache activity org.hibernate.transaction   Log transaction related activity org.hibernate.jdbc          Log all JDBC resource acquisition org.hibernate.hql.ast.AST   Log HQL and SQL ASTs during query parsing org.hibernate.secure        Log all JAAS authorization requests org.hibernate               Log everything (a lot of information, but very useful for troubleshooting)  

Formatted for pasting into a log4j XML configuration file:

<!-- Log all SQL DML statements as they are executed --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.SQL' level='debug' /> <!-- Log all JDBC parameters --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.type' level='debug' /> <!-- Log all SQL DDL statements as they are executed --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl' level='debug' /> <!-- Log the state of all entities (max 20 entities) associated with the session at flush time --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.pretty' level='debug' /> <!-- Log all second-level cache activity --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.cache' level='debug' /> <!-- Log transaction related activity --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.transaction' level='debug' /> <!-- Log all JDBC resource acquisition --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.jdbc' level='debug' /> <!-- Log HQL and SQL ASTs during query parsing --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.hql.ast.AST' level='debug' /> <!-- Log all JAAS authorization requests --> <Logger name='org.hibernate.secure' level='debug' /> <!-- Log everything (a lot of information, but very useful for troubleshooting) --> <Logger name='org.hibernate' level='debug' /> 

NB: Most of the loggers use the DEBUG level, however org.hibernate.type uses TRACE. In previous versions of Hibernate org.hibernate.type also used DEBUG, but as of Hibernate 3 you must set the level to TRACE (or ALL) in order to see the JDBC parameter binding logging.

And a category is specified as such:

<logger name='org.hibernate'>     <level value='ALL' />     <appender-ref ref='FILE'/> </logger> 

It must be placed before the root element.