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Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

You're reading from   Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 Core details of the Enteprise server supported by clear directions and advanced tips.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463630
Length 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luigi Fugaro Luigi Fugaro
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Francesco Marchioni Francesco Marchioni
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Preface 1. Installation and Configuration FREE CHAPTER 2. The CLI Management Tool 3. Managing EAP in Domain Mode 4. Deploying Applications 5. Load Balancing 6. Clustering EAP 7 7. Logging 8. Configuring Database Connectivity 9. Configuring EAP 7 for Java EE Applications 10. Messaging Administration 11. Securing the Application Server 12. New Security Features of EAP 7 13. Using EAP 7 with Docker 14. Running EAP 7 on the Cloud Using OpenShift

The basics of logging


JBoss EAP provides a highly configurable logging system that can be used both by the application server and the applications running on top of it. The logging subsystem is based on the JBoss LogManager project, which internally uses the java.util.logging API. The core components of the LogManager project are the following:

  • Categories: They define which messages need to be captured

  • Handlers: They define how to deal with these messages (for example, log to file, console, and so on)

  • Formatters: They define how log messages appear in log files and so on

Before digging into the details of logging components, we will point out the default log file locations for quick reference.

Default log file locations

By default, the log files for a standalone server can be found in the log directory of the jboss.server.base.dir with the name server.log. Hence, by default, you will find the latest server.log in the folder $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/log. As you will see in a minute, this server...

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