Enabling Spring Logging

[Abiodun Adisa]

I am using Spring in my web application , I enabled Spring by adding

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

to the web.xml. Please is there a way to configure Spring in such a way that i can view the Beans it is loading

[Christian Gossart]

You should configure log4j with Spring in INFO level:

    log4j.logger.org.springframework=INFO 

The search for this kind of output in the log when the server starts:

    
17:45:10,531 INFO  [ContextLoader] Root WebApplicationContext: initialization started
17:45:10,593 INFO  [XmlWebApplicationContext] Refreshing org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@31fc6: display name [Root WebApplicationContext]; startup date [Fri Mar 20 17:45:10 CET 2009]; root of context hierarchy
17:45:10,703 INFO  [XmlBeanDefinitionReader] Loading XML bean definitions from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]
17:45:10,781 INFO  [XmlWebApplicationContext] Bean factory for application context [org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@31fc6]: org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@78e1b5
17:45:10,843 INFO  [DefaultListableBeanFactory] Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@78e1b5: defining beans [hibernateSessionFactory,dataSource,jbpmConfiguration,checkIfFieldsProvidedActionHandler,itvComponent,helloActionHandler]; root of factory hierarchy

The last line lists the beans from the BeanFactory.