I just took log5j for a spin. For those who does not know, log5j is a Java5 enhancement of the log4j api. It provides two new features on top of log4j, where one is made possible by Java5:
Feature 1: Obtain a logger without giving the logger name (which is bad, I think)
Feature 2: Using printf-style [...]
Here is a bit more on CXF logging.
If you are using CXF to host web-service implementations (as opposed to using CXF as a client to consume web services with), you might wanna know about any un-caught RuntimeExceptions, your server-side implementation is throwing. CXF already catches and logs this for you, before sending them back as [...]
Apparently, CXF has chosen the JSE logging API as their API against logging. But you can make CXF log through Log4J quite easily. In the org.apache.cxf.common.logging package of the CXF apidocs, I found the Log4JLogger class, which is a specialization of the JSE logging api java.util.logging.Logger class, delegating logging to a Log4J implementation.
Configuring Log4J in [...]
Today, I had a strange problem with maven, the maven surefire plugin and log4j.xml configuration not really getting into the action. No matter what I did, I could not get log4j logging statements lower than WARN level to show on stdout. But only when the tests ran from maven surefire! If I executed them directly [...]
