How to make Log4J2 working in JBoss EAP 6.4 - java

I have seen successful instance online to make Log4J2 works in JBoss EAP 6.x
My local war file has specific situation (JBoss EAP 6.4, JDK8):
The war is built on Spring 3 framework, where most logging is made by Apache Common Logging
Logging of the source code in the war is made by Slf4J
However, some in house dependencies in WEB-INF/lib is still made by Log4J 1.2, not slf4J
So I added following dependency to the project, listed below (only list the jar file instead of verbose pom xml):
### spring framework from jcl to slf4j
jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.25.jar
### slf4j to log4j 1.2 then to log4j2
slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar
log4j-1.2-api-2.11.1.jar
### slf4j to log4j 2
slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar
slf4j-simple-1.7.25.jar
log4j-api-2.8.2.jar
log4j-core-2.8.2.jar
log4j-slf4j-impl-2.8.jar
My plan is to tell EAP 6.4 to never use any logging module from JBoss, instead just use whatever is provided from this war, so in the jboss-deployment-structure.xml I create following elements
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-deployment-structure xmlns="urn:jboss:deployment-structure:1.2">
<deployment>
<exclude-subsystems>
<subsystem name="logging" />
</exclude-subsystems>
<dependencies>
<module name="oracle" />
</dependencies>
<exclusions>
<module name="org.apache.log4j" />
<module name="org.apache.commons.logging" />
<module name="org.jboss.logging" />
<module name="org.jboss.logging.jul-to-slf4j-stub" />
<module name="org.jboss.logmanager" />
<module name="org.jboss.logmanager.log4j" />
<module name="org.slf4j" />
<module name='org.slf4j.impl' />
<module name='org.slf4j.jcl-over-slf4j' />
</exclusions>
</deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>
And when the application starts, I can see following information show up in the server log, extracted here
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.25.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/slf4j-simple-1.7.25.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2-api-2.11.1.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-api-2.8.2.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-core-2.8.2.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
Adding resource "/C:/Windows/content/MyApp.war/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.8.jar" to module deployment.MyApp.war:main
there is not much further information regarding logging in the server log, no error.
However no matter how I configure the log appender (ROL or Console), there is no log4J log generated. I use FileAppender but there is no log file generated.
I don't think it is caused by log4J configuration issue, because same war file with the same log4J2.xml the logging output fine in Tomcat 8
How can I make this right so at least the application output logging successfully.

There are multiple SLF4J bindings in your dependencies:
slf4j-simple-1.7.25.jar
slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar
log4j-slf4j-impl-2.8.jar
Action 1: Remove slf4j-simple and choose one of slf4j-log4j12 or log4j-slf4j-impl.
Beside that, TWO API dependencies for log4j look suspicious:
log4j-1.2-api-2.11.1.jar
log4j-api-2.8.2.jar
Action 2: Remove log4j-1.2-api-2.11.1.jar since you use implementation version 2.8.2 of log4j.

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So, i will describe the problem and what i done to solve it.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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