I have a grails app (v 1.1.2) the logging is working fine from the groovy classes, but I can't get it to work from within a java source...

I have a class in package com.mforms.devices., it imports apache log4j, defines the logger as follows

private final org.apache.log4j.Logger loggy = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass());

then refer to it later by doing loggy.error("...")

my Config.groovy has the following

log4j = {
        error   'com.mforms'
        root {  
                error 'stdout', 'file'
                additivity = true
        }
}

What am I doing wrong?!?!