spring restful web service logging

Question

I implemented Spring RESTful Web Service using this tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/gs/rest-service/ . I added dependencies for log4j in pom.xml and log4j.properties file in src/main/resources folder. Now I expect logging to be done into log file as stated inthe log4j.properties file instead of to STDOUT. However, logging goes only to STDOUT. How can I fix tis to print log messages to log file?

Answer 1

By default Spring Boot uses LogBack as logging framework. If you want to configure Log4J, follow this configuration . You need to exclude Spring Boot's logging module (containing LogBack dependency) and include Spring boot started for log4j.

BTW, log4j is ancient technology, consider moving to logback or log4j2