Scenario Logger's use of java.util.logging.Logger is a bit strange wrt to the MESSAGE Level. To enable it in the logger.properties you have to enable java.util.logger.Level.ALL, but the messages are logged on Level.INFO. Also, one down side of using the Scenario Logger is that all logger calls appear to come from com.sun.scenario.scenegraph.Logger.UtilLogger.log() instead of the location of the Scenario Logger call.