Transaction logging in JBoss 6

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How to debug CMT transaction boundaries?

some instructions are given for configuring JBoss to log transaction begin, commit etc. events. I'm using JBoss 6, and don't have the file ".../server/conf/jbossjta-properties.xml". Is is possible to achieve the same logging in this newer version?

Answer 1

You can try to set logging in jboss-logging.xml file.

You can find there logger category com.arjuna.ats with log level INFO. You can just change it to TRACE and check if it works for you.

<logger category="com.arjuna.ats">
    <level name="TRACE" />
</logger>

You can find such information in log/server.log file:

2011-07-04 21:58:25,861 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.jta] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BaseTransaction.getStatus
2011-07-04 21:58:25,862 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.jta] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BaseTransaction.begin
2011-07-04 21:58:25,862 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) StateManager::StateManager( 2, 0 )
2011-07-04 21:58:25,862 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BasicAction::BasicAction()
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BasicAction::Begin() for action-id 0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BasicAction::actionInitialise() for action-id 0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) ActionHierarchy::ActionHierarchy(5)
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) ActionHierarchy::add(0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4, 1)
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BasicAction::addChildThread () action 0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4 adding Thread[http-127.0.0.1-8080-1,5,jboss]
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) BasicAction::addChildThread () action 0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4 adding Thread[http-127.0.0.1-8080-1,5,jboss] result = true
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) TransactionReaper::insert ( BasicAction: 0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4 status: ActionStatus.RUNNING, 300 )
2011-07-04 21:58:25,863 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) ReaperElement::ReaperElement ( BasicAction: 0:ffff7f000101:126a:4e121a3c:1d4 status: ActionStatus.RUNNING, 300 )
2011-07-04 21:58:25,864 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.jta] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) TransactionImple.getStatus
2011-07-04 21:58:25,864 TRACE [com.arjuna.ats.jta] (http-127.0.0.1-8080-1) TransactionImple.registerSynchronization