Re: cargo overriding commons-logging?

> Hi,
>
> I've seem to come across some logging problems with cargo, or maybe it
> is because of maven.
>
> Anyway. The core of the problem is that errors at the level of DEBUG
> does not print.
>
> We have a log4j.properties file for our application that details the
> logging levels, and have an ConsoleAppender for its output. We use the
> commons-logging api in our application, and include log4j as its
> implementation to do the actual logging.
>
> But cargo (or maven?) is overriding the log4j output. This is evident
> by seeing that FATAL and ERROR loglevels are rewritten to SEVERE.
> SEVERE is not a loglevel in log4j, and none of our log calls ever
> calls on this level. Also, we can see from the print output that it
> seems that cargo is wrapping its logging subsystem around the
> containers (tomcat). Something which is evident because our log output
> is prefixed with "[talledcontainer] if we do not specify the <log> or
> <output>.
>
> If trying to set root loglevel in log4j to DEBUG we do not receive any
> debug output - only errors from INFO and up is written.
>
> We are using Tomcat 5.5 as our container, with the latest cargo
> snapshot.