Rainer, Is there anything on the Log4j 2 side that would make this easier or better? If so, would you be willing to raise a JIRA with Log4j 2. FYI: I am on the Apache Logging PMC and have been quite involved in Log4j 2.
Gary On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote: > > Am 01.12.2014 um 14:31 schrieb Gary Gregory: > >> FWIW, I think a new version of CL would be 'fun' if it included support >> for >> Log4j 2... >> > > I did an experiment in Tomcat land, because I didn't like the way Log4J > version 2 supported commons-logging. Originally if you want to plug log4j > version 2 into commons-logging, you need to add the log4j jar files to the > same class loader that loaded commons-logging. For log4j Version 1 that is > not true. Its integration in commons-logging can find log4j even if the > class using commons-logging is loaded by a class loader lower down and > log4j can be found by that classloader. > > Furthermore if you use the log4j version 2 integration, it replaces the > factory that searches for log implementations and hard codes log4j version > 2 only. > > So I used the existing log4j version 2 classes and slightly adjusted them > for inclusion into commons logging. The result can be found at > > http://people.apache.org/~rjung/patches/cl-log4j2.patch > > That would be one way of supporting log4j version 2 in commons logging in > a way that's completely analogous to the log4j version 1 support. > > Regards, > > Rainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
