Hi there, I think I found out, why I couldn't log in database as I described in December. I activated the status listener as mentioned in an earlier question concerning DBAppender like this: <statusListener class="ch.qos.logback.core.status.OnConsoleStatusListener" /> and got this exception from JBoss: ERROR in ch.qos.logback.classic.db.DBAppender[myDBAppender] - problem appending event java.sql.SQLException: You cannot set autocommit during a managed transaction! at java.sql.SQLException: You cannot set autocommit during a managed transaction! at at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.BaseWrapperManagedConnection.setJdbcAutoCommit(BaseWrapperManagedConnection.java:878) at at org.jboss.jca.adapters.jdbc.WrappedConnection.setAutoCommit(WrappedConnection.java:712) at at ch.qos.logback.core.db.DBAppenderBase.append(DBAppenderBase.java:90) at at ch.qos.logback.core.UnsynchronizedAppenderBase.doAppend(UnsynchronizedAppenderBase.java:88) at at ch.qos.logback.core.spi.AppenderAttachableImpl.appendLoopOnAppenders(AppenderAttachableImpl.java:64) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.appendLoopOnAppenders(Logger.java:285) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.callAppenders(Logger.java:272) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.buildLoggingEventAndAppend(Logger.java:473) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.filterAndLog_0_Or3Plus(Logger.java:427) at at ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger.error(Logger.java:574) The transaction is handled by the EJB container and cannot be managed by DBAppenderBase line 90. I also tested the DBAppender in a web project that only uses Servlets and no EJBs. I could manage to log with the same log file. Is this a known issue? There has to be a possibility to log to DB without managing the transaction. Best if logback itself finds out, if managing transactions manually is allowed or not. Regards, Henning