Filtering out log4j messages from third-party frameworks?

Question

How do I filter log messages from external third party frameworks? I am using Hibernate and Spring framework and I would like to suppress the logs so that only my log4j logs

Answer 1

Just don't add those packages in your log4j.properties. For instance, you must have this for Spring in your properties file. Take it out if you have some entries like below (anything that starts with org.springframework). Same needs to be done for hibernate.

#Logs the SQL from Spring
log4j.logger.org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate=ERROR
#Logs the SQL parameters from Spring
log4j.logger.org.springframework.jdbc.core.StatementCreatorUtils=ERROR

Also as it was mentioned you should also set the following. I forgot to mention this.

log4j.rootLogger=FATAL  
or   
log4j.rootLogger=ERROR