That sounds like we're in agreement then. I'll go put in a merge request for that sometime in the next few weeks(against a new development branch) to track it. My thought is that all of these new(and breaking changes) will be in a separate branch(log4cxx-next?) so as to not mess with master, as there are a number of fixes that will break things.
-Robert Middleton On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 9:06 AM Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de> wrote: > > Guten Tag Robert Middleton, > am Samstag, 25. September 2021 um 03:49 schrieben Sie: > > > I've been working on ABI compliance for log4cxx lately(LOGCXX-516), > > and I'm running across a few classes that have to do with sending log > > messages as Java serialized messages. Since we've removed the ability > > to receive these messages through Chainsaw, and due to Java's known > > security issues with object deserialization, is there any reason in > > keeping this feature around? > > I have the feeling that textual based log messages are preferred in > most cases and formats like JSON(/XML) seem more interoparable and > accepted these days. So if it makes anything easier, I vote for > removing as well. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Thorsten Schöning > > -- > AM-SoFT IT-Service - Bitstore Hameln GmbH > Mitglied der Bitstore Gruppe - Ihr Full-Service-Dienstleister für IT und TK > > E-Mail: thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de > Web: http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ > > Tel: 05151- 9468- 0 > Tel: 05151- 9468-55 > Fax: 05151- 9468-88 > Mobil: 0178-8 9468-04 > > AM-SoFT IT-Service - Bitstore Hameln GmbH, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln > AG Hannover HRB 221853 - Geschäftsführer: Janine Galonska > > > >