Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

Managing your application logging

In the first part of this chapter, you learnt that the application server uses the JBoss LogManager to trace server activities. As far as applications are concerned, you have a wider set of options. For example, you can use the following:

• Package any Java logging framework with your application (such as log4j), also known as per-deployment logging.
• Define a logging profile in your EAP configuration, which is dedicated to your applications.
• Define a specific logger (and associate it with a handler) to keep your application logs separate from your server logs. You can check the Defining new loggers section for an example of creating a new logger.

Per-deployment logging

As we said, per-deployment logging allows you to ...