Enable Hibernate logging

Hibernate logging has to be also enabled in hibernate configuration.

Add lines

hibernate.show_sql=true
hibernate.format_sql=true

either to

server\default\deployers\ejb3.deployer\META-INF\jpa-deployers-jboss-beans.xml

or to application’s persistence.xml in <persistence-unit><properties> tag.

Anyway hibernate logging won’t include (in useful form) info on actual prepared statements’ parameters.

There is an alternative way of using log4jdbc for any kind of sql logging.

The above answer assumes that you run the code that uses hibernate on JBoss, not in IDE.
In this case you should configure logging also on JBoss in server\default\deploy\jboss-logging.xml, not in local IDE classpath.

Note that JBoss 6 doesn’t use log4j by default. So adding log4j.properties to ear won’t help.
Just try to add to jboss-logging.xml:

   <logger category="org.hibernate">
     <level name="DEBUG"/>
   </logger>

Then change threshold for root logger. See SLF4J logger.debug() does not get logged in JBoss 6.

If you manage to debug hibernate queries right from IDE (without deployment), then you should have log4j.properties, log4j, slf4j-api and slf4j-log4j12 jars on classpath.
See http://www.mkyong.com/hibernate/how-to-configure-log4j-in-hibernate-project/.

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