Configure Log4J in Spring DM server

[ivan2007]

I would like to use my existing log4j configurations with its appenders for a simple bundle.
I've included the following in the MANIFEST.MF:

Import-Bundle: com.springsource.slf4j.org.apache.commons.logging;version="[1.5.6,1.6.0)"
Import-Package: org.slf4j;version="[1.5.6,1.6.0)",
 org.apache.log4j;bundle-symbolic-name="com.springsource.org.apache.log4j"

I also have the log4j.properties in the bundle classpath.
However my log4j appenders aren't being used. How do I configure this correctly?

[soks86]

Your log configuration gets set in

{DM_SERVER_HOME}/config/server.config

there is a section that looks like:

"trace": {
"directory": "serviceability/trace",
"levels": {
"*" : "info"
}
}

This configures the log4j (or is it slf4j, whatever) for the server.

If you add your own entries it would look like:

"trace": {
"directory": "serviceability/trace",
"levels": {
"*" : "info",
"com.me.mypackage.*" : "error"
}
}

Make sure you don't miss the ',' (comma) between entries and in this config you don't use "Trace" you use "Verbose". So it's Info, Warn, Error, Verbose... though I think I missed one.

Then your logs will be found in:

{DM_SERVER_HOME}/serviceability/trace/{bundleName}-{version}/trace.log

There is some way to override some of this, it's in the DM Server manual and shouldn't be hard to find...

[ivan2007]

I know about the configration in the server.config file. But that doesn't use Log4J.
I want to be able to configure my own appenders with a log4J properties file in a bundle.

The programmers guide mentions that you can use vanilla log4j by the importing the following:

Import-Package: org.apache.log4j;bundle-symbolic-name="com.springsource.org.apache.log4j"

I am not able to get this working.

[soks86]

Oh, apologies, yeah I saw that in the guide too and gave up for now... hahahah.

If you get it going, please do post what happened.