How to make CXF SOAP Request to be printed under log file - cxf

Question

#InInterceptors(interceptors = "org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingInInterceptor" )
#OutInterceptors(interceptors = "org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingOutInterceptor")
public class SKTWeb implements SKTWebService {
// method logic goes here
}
Hi , after adding these two lines inside the CXF Method Implementation .
I could get whip of SOAP Requestand Response under tomcat server console
see a instance of SOAP Request Printed under Tomcat console
INFO: Inbound Message
----------------------------
ID: 1
Address: /Sktweb-33.0/services/SKTWeb
Encoding: UTF-8
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
Headers: {cache-control=[no-cache], content-type=[text/xml; charset=UTF-8], connection=[keep-alive], host=[local
Payload: <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><ns4:strategy xmlns:ns
Could anybody please tell me how can get this inside my Log file (Log4j)
Currently this is my log4j.properties file
log4j.rootCategory=INFO, A1
# A1 is a DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.A1.file=/Haieeee.log
log4j.appender.A1.datePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.A1.append=true
log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-22d{dd/MMM/yyyy HH:mm:ss} - %m%n
And also i have META-INF\cxf\org\apache\cxf\Logger Log4jLogger.class inside the Web Application .
And also i kept
<cxf:bus>
<cxf:features>
<cxf:logging/>
</cxf:features>
</cxf:bus>
Inside the endpoints.xml file
Any help please

Answer 1

A slight bit of confusion it seems. You need your assembled application to have a locatable file META-INF/cxf/org.apache.cxf.Logger (yes, those are dots! It's not a .java or .class file) and it should have the contents:
org.apache.cxf.common.logging.Log4jLogger
I use exactly the above in my code and it works like a charm. (I don't use it with the message logging feature though; too much traffic when deployed for my taste…)

Answer 2

Basically you want your properties file to be picked by CXF then it use this properties file instead of CXF's.
I am using spring configuration in my CXF application. If you are not using any Spring config then you create a new config and load it on start up using spring context listener, then you can add the below code in your XML file.
<bean id="log4jInitialization"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetClass" value="org.springframework.util.Log4jConfigurer" />
<property name="targetMethod" value="initLogging" />
<property name="arguments">
<list>
<value>file:fullpath/filename.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
You can also have classpath:filename.properties in the <list> </list>. The logging implemented in Spring framework will be used to log all the request and response. You can also use the same logging implementation to use in your application.

Answer 3

Always go with interceptors...Add slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar,slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar and commons-logging-1.1.1.jar. Paste the following code in your cxf.xml...
<bean class="org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingInInterceptor" id="loggingInInterceptor" />
<bean class="org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingOutInterceptor" id="logOutInterceptor" />
<cxf:bus>
<cxf:inInterceptors>
<ref bean="loggingInInterceptor" />
</cxf:inInterceptors>
<cxf:outInterceptors>
<ref bean="logOutInterceptor" />
</cxf:outInterceptors>
</cxf:bus>