I\'m working on a simple desktop app (not webapp).
Here is my log4j.properties:
log4j.rootCategory=INFO, stdout
log4j.appender.stdout=o
You have to disable commons-logging from the dependency in pom.xml file of the web app.
Even after removing commons-logging from pom.xml please check the dependency hierarchy available in Eclipse or STS IDE. This will help in knowing if somehow its getting added because of some other dependency which we may not be knowing.