How to make CXF Logging feature work with SOAP messages?

Question

I have logging set up for CXF. It is successfully logging using log4j. As a test I have modified the settings in log4j.properties , where the root logger is set to INFO .

Adding log4j.logger.org.apache.cxf=DEBUG, C causes CXF logging to appear in the log file. However, SOAP messages are not getting logged as they hit the server. I have set up cxf.xml as the guide dictates. The file looks like this:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:cxf="http://cxf.apache.org/core" xsi:schemaLocation="http://cxf.apache.org/core 
  http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/core.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">

    <cxf:bus>
      <cxf:features>
        <cxf:logging />
      </cxf:features>
    </cxf:bus>
</beans>

This file, when packaged in the .war, is in /WEB-INF/classes/cxf.xml . Based on my reading, this is all that is necessary to have CXF start logging inbound and outbound messages.

I have:

1. Successfully replaced log4j as CXF's default logger.
2. Added the logging feature to the cxf bus.
3. Ensured that CXF components are able to log.

4. Additionally specified the specific loggers as allowable:

    log4j.logger.org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingInInterceptor=DEBUG, C log4j.logger.org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingOutInterceptor=DEBUG, C 

The raw soap messages however, refuse to get logged. What am I doing wrong?

edit: adding web.xml and applicationContext.xml as requested

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
  <context-param>
      <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
      <param-value>classpath:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
  </context-param>

  <listener>
      <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
  </listener>

  <servlet>
      <servlet-name>cxf</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>cxf</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <session-config>
      <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
  </session-config>
</web-app>

applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:soap="http://cxf.apache.org/bindings/soap"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
     http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd"
   default-dependency-check="none" default-lazy-init="false">

<!-- Load the needed resources that are present in the cxf* jars -->
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-soap.xml"/>
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml"/>

<!--Endpoint Info is below here -->
</beans>

Answer 1

Have you tried adding it to your WEB-INF/cxf-servlet.xml? The following configuration works for logging server side messages.

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:jaxws="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws"
    xmlns:cxf="http://cxf.apache.org/core" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
     http://cxf.apache.org/jaxws http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxws.xsd
     http://cxf.apache.org/core 
     http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/core.xsd">

    <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
    <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />

    <cxf:bus>
        <cxf:features>
            <cxf:logging />
        </cxf:features>
    </cxf:bus>  

    <jaxws:endpoint ... />        
</beans>

This assumes that you are declaring your services according to CXF's Writing a service with Spring .

As for cxf.xml, I believe that may be for client configuration, although I could not locate any supporting documentation.