Question

I would like to turn off log4j logging for Spring 3.1 while leaving things on debug for my own code.

I tried sticking this line into my log4j.properties:

log4j.category.org.springframework = WARN 

To get this:

# Root Logger Setup:  Includes the level of reporting and appenders -> where
#                     log messages get sent                                              
log4j.rootLogger                            = DEBUG,ca,fa

log4j.category.org.springframework = WARN

#ca - Console Appender - Send messages to the console
log4j.appender.ca                          = org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.ca.layout                   = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.ca.layout.ConversionPattern = [acme]: [%-5p] - %d{yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss} -  %c{1}:%M(): %m%n



#fa - File Appender - Send messages to a log file
log4j.appender.fa                            = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.fa.File                       = acme.log
log4j.appender.fa.MaxFileSize                = 100KB
log4j.appender.fa.MaxBackupIndex             = 10
log4j.appender.fa.Threshold                  = DEBUG
log4j.appender.fa.layout                     = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.fa.layout.ConversionPattern   = [%-5p] - %d{yyyy-MMM-dd HH:mm:ss} -  %c{2}:%M(): %m%n 

No luck in shutting off the debug output from Spring though.

Thanks in advance for any help

Steve

Answer 1

I figured this out.

In my classpath I have a directory C:\Classes for convenience when I am experimenting with things. I had another log4.properties file there, which was superseding the one packaged in my WAR making it look like the technique below wasn’t working. I renamed the log4.properties in my C:\Classes and all is well.

Thanks to everyone who took a look and thanks to the people at Spring Source who made doing this necessary. It is good to know that an extensive level of debugging is easily available to me when I want it instead of just getting a black box.