I assume that you know how to setup a JAX WS service with Apache CXF. The final steps to make logging of the request/response message happen are:
(1) Add LoggingInInterceptor/LoggingOutInterceptor to your Server/Client class
You can plug in provided LoggingInterceptors that will log the request/response messages. The following snippet of a Spring Bean Server configuration shows how to do this:
@Bean
org.apache.cxf.endpoint.Server calculatorService() {
JaxWsServerFactoryBean svrFactory = new JaxWsServerFactoryBean();
svrFactory.setServiceClass(Calculator.class);
svrFactory.setAddress("http://localhost:9000/CalculatorService");
svrFactory.setServiceBean(new CalculatorImpl());
svrFactory.getInInterceptors().add(new LoggingInInterceptor());
svrFactory.getOutInterceptors().add(new LoggingOutInterceptor());
return svrFactory.create();
}
(2) tell Apache CXF to use the logging framework of your choice
Apache CXF by default uses java.util.logging. That is propably - in most cases - not the framework that you use in your application. You have to change this, which can be easily done by setting the system property
org.apache.cxf.Logger
E.g. to change the logging framework to log4j you need to set the system property like this (for example as '-D' java option):
-Dorg.apache.cxf.Logger=org.apache.cxf.common.logging.Log4jLogger
(3) configure the logging
The most hidden information for me was to find out which logger I need to configure for the logging. A small notice on the Apache CXF 2.5 migration guide gave the needed information
"The Logging interceptors now log using service specific categories/loggers instead of just LoggingInInterceptor/LoggingOutInterceptor. The names of the logger that is used is org.apache.cxf.services.ServiceName.PortName.PortTypeName. This allows the user to configure specific per service filters and formatters in their logging configuration."Given this information and the WSDL parts of your service like, e.g.
....
<wsdl:portType name="calculator">
....
<wsdl:service name="CalculatorService">
<wsdl:port binding="tns:CalculatorServiceSoapBinding" name="calculatorPort">
<soap:address location="http://localhost:9000/CalculatorService"/>
</wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>
....
your logger configuration in log4j would look like this:
<logger name="org.apache.cxf.services.CalculatorService.calculatorPort.calculator">
<level value="info" />
<appender-ref ref="<some appender>" />
</logger>
All these things done you should see the request/response messages like this ;-)
