How to configure the log4j TimeBasedRollingPolicy on EAP 4.x

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Issue

I want to use TimeBasedRollingPolicy so that the logfiles will rotate for example every hou,r and then the logfile should be compressed automatically.
I have put the apache-log4j-extras-1.0.jar in the lib directory of my jboss application server,  in addition to the log4j.jar file,  so that the TimeBasedRollingPolicy.class file would be found, but I get the error message:

Element type "rollingPolicy" must be declared

My configuration looks as follows:

   <appender name="FILE" class="org.jboss.logging.appender.RollingFileAppender">
      <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
      <param name="File" value="${Log.Home}/${Instance}-${jboss.bind.address}-console.log"/>
      <param name="Append" value="false"/>
      <param name="DatePattern" value="yyyy-MM-dd-HH"/> 
    <rollingPolicy class="org.apache.log4j.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
       <param name="FileNamePattern" value="${Log.Home}/${Instance}-${jboss.bind.address}-console.%d.log.gz" />
    </rollingPolicy>
      <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
                     <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d LOGINFO: %m%n"/>
      </layout>
   </appender>

Environment

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform(EAP) 4.x

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