How to log Apache CXF Soap Request and Soap Response using Log4j?

Question

I am using the Apache CXF Framework. Inside my client program, I need to log CXF SOAP Requests and SOAP Responses. When I used

Answer 1

You need to create a file named org.apache.cxf.Logger (that is: org.apache.cxf file with Logger extension) under /META-INF/cxf/ with the following contents:

org.apache.cxf.common.logging.Log4jLogger

Reference: Using Log4j Instead of java.util.logging.

Also if you replace standard:

with much more verbose:

Apache CXF will pretty print XML messages formatting them with proper indentation and line breaks. Very useful. More about it here.