Configure Jboss eap 6.2 to use log4j2

[wattale]

Hi I have developed a multiple module j2ee ear deployment and I need to change it's logging configuration to use log4j2. The deployment package doesn't include any log4j configuration, it uses the jboss default native logging, What I need to do is change the jboss native logging to log4j2. So far I found one way of doing it, that is to include the log4j2 library in each of the module and a log4j config file. But this approach seems very problematic, since if it required to change the logging level I will have to deploy the whole application changing all the log4j config files. My question is , is they any way that I can change the configuration in Jboss ( not in my app ) to use log4j2 for logging ?

[jamezp]

There is not a way to configure a log4j2 logmanager via the logging subsystem. This works with log4j(1) by a custom log4j fork where the logmanager bits have been replaced to delegate to JBoss Log Manager. Nothing like this has been done for log4j2 yet and may not even happen.

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James R. Perkins

[wattale]

Actually I found a way. I was using slf4j with log4j so now i'm configuring slf4j to invoke log4j2 methods without changing the underlying code as stated here http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/maven-artifacts.html. But I have a small question that is, I couldn't configure it to use single log4j2.xml file to all the modules. Currently I'm including log4j2.xml in each and every module (it works, still there are some issues to be solved eg: spring security logging)

[jamezp]

You'd need to make sure that file is in the class path. Maybe it just needs to be a resource in the log4j2 module.

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James R. Perkins