I have done something really nasty in the release-2.x branch to fix benchmarks.jar generated by log4j-perf. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I am sharing two:
[image: image.png] [image: image.png] (In case images get truncated, see commit 4049240c.) In a nutshell, Log4j2Plugins.dat of the shaded benchmarks.jar doesn't contain log4j-layout-template-json plugins due to overrides taking place during shading. This problem rendered the JsonTemplateLayout benchmarks broken after JTLs migration to plugins. Using a 3rd party Maven plugin circumventing a Log4j bug in the Log4j project itself felt pretty unpleasant to me. Is there any other way I could have solved this?
