how to disable tomcat 7 console debug information

Question

Actually, I have had this question for a quite long time already, I'm using SpringMVC + Hibernate3 + Spring Security as the framework, tomcat 7 as the container, however after add the filter and interceptor in the web.xml, there are sooooo many debug informations print into the console, no matter how I change the configuration files, those debug informations always staying there, please help.

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
  <display-name>iCubeHRS</display-name>

   <filter>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
      <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
      <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>           
            /WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml
            /WEB-INF/spring-security.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-param>

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

   <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>      
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

log4j

# Root logger option
log4j.rootLogger=WARN, file
log4j.category.org.springframework = OFF

log4j.logger.org.springframework.aop.framework.autoproxy=OFF

log4j.logger.org.apache=OFF,R

# Direct log messages to a log file
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.file.File=c\:\\test\\logging.log
log4j.appender.file.MaxFileSize=1MB
log4j.appender.file.MaxBackupIndex=1
log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

those bloody debug information in console(there are far more than that I pasted here ):

14:16:21.617 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.transaction.config.internalTransactionAdvisor'
14:16:21.618 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Finished creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver'
14:16:21.618 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Unable to locate LocaleResolver with name 'localeResolver': using default [org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.AcceptHeaderLocaleResolver@79d4461c]
14:16:21.619 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.theme.FixedThemeResolver'
14:16:21.625 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.transaction.config.internalTransactionAdvisor'
14:16:21.626 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Finished creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.theme.FixedThemeResolver'
14:16:21.626 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Unable to locate ThemeResolver with name 'themeResolver': using default [org.springframework.web.servlet.theme.FixedThemeResolver@63f9e51e]
14:16:21.627 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping#0'
14:16:21.627 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping'
14:16:21.627 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping#1'
14:16:21.627 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#0'
14:16:21.627 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#1'
14:16:21.628 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping#0'
14:16:21.628 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping'
14:16:21.629 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping#1'
14:16:21.629 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#0'
14:16:21.629 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping#1'
14:16:21.629 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter'
14:16:21.629 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter'
14:16:21.630 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#0'
14:16:21.630 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#1'
14:16:21.631 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter'
14:16:21.631 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter'
14:16:21.631 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#0'
14:16:21.631 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter#1'
14:16:21.632 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver#0'
14:16:21.632 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.ResponseStatusExceptionResolver#0'
14:16:21.632 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver#0'
14:16:21.633 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver#0'
14:16:21.633 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.ResponseStatusExceptionResolver#0'
14:16:21.633 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver#0'
14:16:21.635 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.view.DefaultRequestToViewNameTranslator'
14:16:21.642 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.transaction.config.internalTransactionAdvisor'
14:16:21.643 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Finished creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.view.DefaultRequestToViewNameTranslator'
14:16:21.643 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Unable to locate RequestToViewNameTranslator with name 'viewNameTranslator': using default [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.DefaultRequestToViewNameTranslator@2111dbcb]
14:16:21.644 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver#0'
14:16:21.645 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver#0'
14:16:21.648 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.support.SessionFlashMapManager'
14:16:21.655 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.transaction.config.internalTransactionAdvisor'
14:16:21.656 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Finished creating instance of bean 'org.springframework.web.servlet.support.SessionFlashMapManager'
14:16:21.656 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Unable to locate FlashMapManager with name 'flashMapManager': using default [org.springframework.web.servlet.support.SessionFlashMapManager@22f73351]
14:16:21.659 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.b.f.s.DefaultListableBeanFactory - Returning cached instance of singleton bean 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalScheduledAnnotationProcessor'
14:16:21.659 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Published WebApplicationContext of servlet 'dispatcher' as ServletContext attribute with name [org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.CONTEXT.dispatcher]
14:16:21.659 [localhost-startStop-1] INFO  o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'dispatcher': initialization completed in 2535 ms
14:16:21.659 [localhost-startStop-1] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Servlet 'dispatcher' configured successfully

=====================================update 1 ======================================

updated Log4j files

log4j.rootLogger=WARN,console,R

log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.threshold=WARN
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.conversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} [%5p] - %c -%F(%L) -%m%n

log4j.org.springframework.web=WARN

log4j.logger.org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc = OFF

log4j.logger.org.springframework.security=OFF 

org.springframework.security.level=WARN

Answer 1

Actually the answer is here https://stackoverflow.com/a/23254829/1000011

Create a logback.xml file in your resources directory containing:

<configuration>

    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
        <encoder>
            <pattern>web - %date [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %message%n
            </pattern>
        </encoder>
    </appender>

    <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" />

    <root level="INFO">
        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
    </root>

</configuration>