Question

I’m looking for a way to set up Log4j (or any other logger) so that I can see in log whenever Spring creates a bean or sets a bean property. Eg. something like this:

1:00:00 Creating bean Foo (Foo@ef5c94)
1:00:01 Creating bean Bar (Bar@147a87e)
1:00:02 Setting bean Foo (Foo@ef5c94) to Bar (Bar@147a87e)
(...)

Is this easily possible? I’m using Spring 2.5.6 (no choice there :/ ) and Log4j (version doesn’t matter I expect).

Answer 1

Looks like org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory logger is the best you can get.

Also simply try turning on ALL logging level for the whole org.springframework – maybe you’ll find something more useful.