This line:
### Set Log Levels - ###
log4j.rootLogger=warn, stdout log4j.logger.org.hibernate=info
Should be broken into two lines:
log4j.rootLogger=warn, stdout
log4j.logger.org.hibernate=info
Wow ! As a newbie. I would have never figured out something like this.
The code I use finally is here -
### Direct log4j properties to STDOUT ###
log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.Target=System.out
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n
### Set Log Levels - ###
log4j.rootLogger=warn, stdout
log4j.logger.org.hibernate=info
### Log JDBC Bind Parameters ###
log4j.logger.org.hibernate.type=debug
### Log schema/export update ###
log4j.logger.org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl=debug