I understand that Hibernate is using commons-logging, which uses log4j as the dfault logger. I dont have log4j.jar in the path and that should enable commons-logging to use the jdk14logger (I am using jdk1.4.2). Now, while executing new Configuration(), Hibernate prints a lot of "INFO" messages to the console and I would like to disable them. Is there any easy way of doing this? Can having commons-logging.properties in the path help achieve this? How? Any ideas??? Please help....
Thanks a lot.
Madhan.

I'd had success limiting the output with the following,

log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.transaction=debug
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.cache=debug
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate=warn
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Binder=warn
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Environment=debug
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.util.DTDEntityResolver=warn
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.engine.Cascades=warn
log4j.logger.net.sf.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl=warn

However, I change to debug level whenever there is a problem because the logs will most likely tell you what's wrong. Also, reading the logs is a great way to learn Hibernate.

Jeff

Thanks! I am not using log4j. I finally figured that commons-logging was using JDK14Logger and it was using jdk_home/jre/lib/logging.properties file and it lets me control the verbosity (using the settings similiar to the ones that you mentioned)
Madhan.