BPEL and Java Cookbook

Chapter 4. Custom Logging in the Oracle SOA Suite

This chapter contains the following recipes:

• Logging to a custom file
• Configuring custom handlers
• Logging exceptions
• Enabling logging on the BPEL server
• Redirecting System.out and System.err files
• Setting up a rotation logfile

Introduction

We have covered advanced tracing and logging techniques in Chapter 3, Advanced Tracing and Logging. Occasionally, we may need functionality that is not a part of the vendor product. In such cases, additional workaround and customization techniques are suitable for logging and tracing purposes. One of the most common techniques is to set up a mechanism to decouple the interesting part of logging information into a separate logging file. To fine-tune the logging, we define ...