Cassandra debug logging in JBoss 4.2.3

Question

I am using Cassandra with JBoss 4.2.3. I am trying to configure the debug logs of Cassandra in jboss-log4j.xml by following this link:

<logger name="com.datastax.driver.core" additivity="false">
        <level value="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
</logger>

<logger name="com.datastax.driver.core.Cluster" additivity="false">
        <level value="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
</logger>

<logger name="com.datastax.driver.core.Session" additivity="false">
        <level value="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
</logger>

<logger name="com.datastax.driver.core.RequestHandler" additivity="false">
        <level value="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
</logger>

<logger name="com.datastax.driver.core.Connection" additivity="false">
        <level value="DEBUG"/>
    <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
</logger>

<root>
  <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE" />
  <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
</root>

But JBoss is not picking it up. It works fine from standlone java program. How do I make it work ?

Answer 1

Answering my own question though this may not be a perfect solution: Since I couldn't do it through the configuration files, I did it programmatically as below using Link1 and Link2:

        FileAppender fa = new FileAppender();
        fa.setName("FileLogger");
        fa.setFile("${jboss.server.home.dir}/all/log/Cassandra.log");
        fa.setLayout(new PatternLayout(PatternLayout.TTCC_CONVERSION_PATTERN));
        fa.setThreshold(Level.TRACE);
        fa.setAppend(true);
        fa.activateOptions();

        Logger rootLogger = Logger.getRootLogger();
        Logger cassandraLogger = rootLogger.getLoggerRepository().getLogger("com.datastax.driver.core");
        cassandraLogger.setLevel(Level.TRACE);
        cassandraLogger.addAppender(fa);