Is it possible to log smartly in CAF application?
What is not smart is to use log() method from com.webmethods.caf.faces.bean.BaseFacesBean, beause it logs as jsf logger, so it shares configuration for logging with other things in jsf - it's not application specific.
It is possible when you modify log4j.init.properties file in ${MWS_HOME}/server/default/config folder.
When you publish your CAF application from designer - there is new category created. When you log in as sysadmin user and you open Logging Configuration link:
there is new category added (I added cafTestApplication):
In you CAF application Java, you can get Logger as:
private static org.apache.log4j.Logger LOG = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger("/caftestapplication");
Note: category is in lower case (it was changed by MWS)
All you need to use different log (and not _full_.log) is to add this (MWS restart needed):
log4j.category./caftestapplication=DEBUG,newLogFile
log4j.appender.newLogFile=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.newLogFile.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.appender.newLogFile.File=${log4j.logging.dir}/newLogFile.log
log4j.appender.newLogFile.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.newLogFile.layout.ConversionPattern=${log4j.message.pattern}
And now all your logging messages are in new newLogFile.log which is in same folder as _full_.log.