logging/jms-appender/README.txt

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ServiceMix Pax JMS Appender
===========================

This ServiceMix features allows to configure a JMS appender with ActiveMQ. When the bundle
is deployed, a new OPS4J Pax logging appender will be registered using Pax Logging OSGI service.
This appender can be used next by modifying the org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg file and adding the
following lines

log4j.rootLogger=INFO, out, osgi:VmLogAppender, osgi:JMSLogAppender

Procedure to install the bundle and configure it
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    1) Compile the project
        mvn install

    2) Create config file under ${servicemix.home}/etc directory
        touch org.apache.servicemix.logging.cfg
        edit the file and add destinationName=logTopic

    3) Modify org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg

       log4j.rootLogger=INFO, out, osgi:VmLogAppender, osgi:JMSLogAppender
       # Be sure that ActiveMQ messages are not logged to 'jms' appender
       log4j.logger.org.apache.activemq=INFO, stdout
       log4j.logger.org.apache.activemq.karaf.logging = INFO, stdout

    4) Start ServiceMix server
       ./bin/servicemix or bin/servicemix.bat

    5) Deploy the bundle
       install -s mvn:org.apache.servicemix.logging/pax-jms-appender/${project.version}

    5) Check that topic logTopic contains entries !