> On Feb 12, 2020, at 4:14 PM, Christopher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that the log4j2 SocketServer and related utilities were
> moved away from log4j-core and into log4j-tools awhile back. However,
> there hasn't been a release of log4j-tools, as far as I can tell. Is
> there any plan to do so? I'm having trouble migrating some custom
> appender/receiver stuff from log4j1 without the classes, and I'd
> prefer to use the newer log4j-core, rather than an out-of-date one
> from before the move of these classes.
>
> (I just now subscribed to the list, and haven't had time to thoroughly
> search the backlog for related discussions, so apologies if this has
> already been covered recently.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christopher
>
You are correct. It hasn’t been released. There is some work that would be need
to do the release although I don’t believe it is much.
However, you should be warned that we don’t recommend sending Java serialized
objects over the network as this has several problems, security being one of
them. Instead, using something like JSON is a better choice.
Ralph
