System.out.println not printing to console

I have a Spring web app running on Wildfly 8.* and for some reason it won't print to the console. I see all the console logs and stack traces fine but the System messages just don't appear.

The problem might be with my log4j setup so I'll post that config;

` http://ift.tt/1jdUINB'>

<appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
    <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
    <param name="ConversionPattern" 
      value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n" />
    </layout>
</appender>

<root>
    <level value="DEBUG" />
    <appender-ref ref="console" />
</root>

`

I've ran apps on JBoss 7.1 before however without this problem so I'm really at a loss on what could be wrong.

Feel free to ask about any of my other config not sure what would be needed.