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If you turn on these:
<DebugIncomingMessages>true</DebugIncomingMessages>
<DebugOutGoingMessages>true</DebugOutGoingMessages>

it will log to both console and log files. It could be nice to have an separate option that allows logging outgoing and/or incoming messages to log files regardless to outputting to console.

That way I can check my console for serious warnings, and check my log files for incoming and outgoing messages (during beta testing)

Yeah, most of this problem is related with the JDK logging framework which I have to admit sucks pretty badly when compared to some other well known alternatives ( i.e. log4j )

Next major version is using log4j and a vastly refactored logging system.

It might also be nice if you could also change the logging level of the "DATA IN" and "DATA OUT" messages. INFO seems pretty high, causing a bunch of messages which can get in the way of debugging server extensions.