3 Replies Latest reply on Jun 13, 2012 7:04 AM by chrkoelle

    Unable to disable JBoss logging subsystem

    chrkoelle

      Hi

       

      I have a problem with disabling the logging subsystem ind JBoss 7.1.1. The reason why we want to do this is a bug in the logging subsystem that causes performance problems:

       

      https://community.jboss.org/thread/198196

       

      https://issues.jboss.org/browse/LOGMGR-38

       

      To do this I followed the descriptions in this article:

       

      https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/How+To

       

      Unfortunately this seems not to work completely. I get the following error messages during server start:

       

      08:42:13,787 ERROR [stderr] log4j:ERROR A "org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator" object is not assignable to a "org.apache.log4j.spi.Configurator" variable.

      08:42:13,790 ERROR [stderr] log4j:ERROR The class "org.apache.log4j.spi.Configurator" was loaded by

      08:42:13,790 ERROR [stderr] log4j:ERROR [ModuleClassLoader for Module "deployment.myapp.ear:main" from Service Module Loader] whereas object of type

      08:42:13,796 ERROR [stderr] log4j:ERROR "org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator" was loaded by [ModuleClassLoader for Module "org.apache.log4j:main" from local module loader @d233caf (roots: /opt/jboss7/modules)].

      08:42:13,796 ERROR [stderr] log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate configurator [org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator].

      08:42:13,805 ERROR [stderr] log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (myapp.MyClass).

      08:42:13,805 ERROR [stderr] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

       

      And after that a lot of loader constraint violations:

       

      Caused by: java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraint violation: when resolving field "logger" the class loader (instance of org/jboss/modules/ModuleClassLoader) of the referring class, myapp/MyClass, and the class loader (instance of org/jboss/modules/ModuleClassLoader) for the field's resolved type, s/ModuleClassLoader, have different Class objects for that type

       

      I seems to me that the logging module is still used despite the configuration changes that should prevent the using of the subsystem.

       

      Any hints?

       

      Christian

       

      PS: I have completely removed the subsystem in the standalone.xml and added a jboss-deployment-structure.xml in the META-INF directory of my ear with the following content:

       

      <jboss-deployment-structure>

          <deployment>

              <!-- Exclusions allow you to prevent the server from automatically adding some dependencies -->

              <exclusions>

                  <module name="org.apache.log4j" />

              </exclusions>

          </deployment>

      </jboss-deployment-structure>

        • 1. Re: Unable to disable JBoss logging subsystem
          ctomc

          Hi,

           

          you do not need to remove the whole subsystem to disable logging

           

          What you need is to propertly define excludes which should include org.jboss.logging and org.jboss.logmanager

           

          and especialy you need to properly define this exlusion for your submodules inside your ear as this is your main problem.

          the way you have it configured right now it will exclude org.apache.log4j from ear but not from any submodules (war,jars) you have.

           

          read https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/Class+Loading+in+AS7 for more info what can be done and how.

           

           

          --

          tomaz

          • 2. Re: Unable to disable JBoss logging subsystem
            jamezp

            Disabling the logging subsystem doesn't stop JBoss AS from using JBoss Log Manager. It will always use JBoss Log Manager even with the logging subsystem disabled. You should be able to just upgrade the log manager library to a new version with no problems though. In the moduels/org/jboss/logmanager/main directory just add the jboss-logging-1.3.1.Final.jar and modify the module.xml to use it.

             

             

            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
            
            <!--
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              -->
            
            
            <module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="org.jboss.logmanager">
                <resources>
                    <resource-root path="jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar"/>
                    <!-- Insert resources here -->
                </resources>
            
            
                <dependencies/>
            </module>
            
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            • 3. Re: Unable to disable JBoss logging subsystem
              chrkoelle

              Hi James

               

              Thanks for the answer. After a lot of tries i already expected this .

               

              We decided to get the JBoss AS 7.1.2 from git and build it ourselves. That solved our performance problems and our application is now faster than on JBoss 5.1 .

               

              Christian