I have gone around the block trying to isolate log4j, but I cannot get anything to work. I have read through the wiki
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossClassLoadingUseCases
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ClassLoadingConfiguration
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Logging

My file looks like:

geara.ear
- geara.ejb3
- geara.par
- geara.war
- lib/geara.jar
- lib/log4j.jar
- META-INF
-- MANIFEST.MF
-- jboss-app.xml
-- application.xml

In my Manifest, I added

Class-Path: lib/geara.jar lib/log4j.xml

and in my jboss-app I have

 <loader-repository>
 geara:loader=geara.ear
 <loader-repository-config>java2ParentDelegation=false</loader-repository-config>
 </loader-repository>

According to the wiki, the jboss-app settings should isolate all the classes contained in my EAR from the UCL. I have included the log4j.jar and log4j.xml (inside my geara.jar) in my isolated classloader, so the log4j should not be pulling from the system wide log4j. I have also included the same setup for isolation in my war using the jboss-web isolation settings and placing log4j under WEB-INF/lib and log4j.xml in WEB-INF/classes

So from my understanding, my application sohuld be completely isolated. But whenever I start jboss (4.0.3), my custom log4j.xml is never loaded.

Can anyone tell if I am missing a step?