How to set log level for specific packages using log4j2.xml and @Logging annotation?

[mcmessina]

I would like to set the log level for a specific package, such as the following (I added one line to the default example provided in the documentation here and set the root log level to "TRACE"):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration>
    <Appenders>
        <Console name="JsonAppender" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
            <JsonTemplateLayout eventTemplateUri="classpath:LambdaJsonLayout.json" />
        </Console>
    </Appenders>
    <Loggers>
        <!--Set a new log level for a specific package here-->
        <Logger name="software.amazon" level="WARN"/>
        <Logger name="JsonLogger" level="TRACE" additivity="false">
            <AppenderRef ref="JsonAppender"/>
        </Logger>
        <Root level="trace">
            <AppenderRef ref="JsonAppender"/>
        </Root>
    </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Is this type of configuration modification supported? When I try this with the @Logging annotation in a Java 11-based Lambda, these level-based statements are ignored (but working locally). Could this be related to the the way I package the application using Maven? This only seems to work if I modify the logging configuration within the Java handler like the following:

Configurator.setLevel("software.amazon", Level.WARN);