At present, logging output from commons-logging gets directed by the ConsoleAppender to the console. This is unfortunate for two reasons: as the output from a testNG test case (collected by org.jgroups.util.JUnitXMLReporter) and the logging output are now not collected together and (ii) the logging output is effectively lost when the console dies.

Need to find a way to cause the commons-logging output (which is supported by a log4j implementation) to be collected together with the test cases.