I disagree. We already get comaints that the log4j 1.2 bridge requires core. 
Keeping it separate allows for other implementations. Frankly, I'm not sure the 
code Matt is talking about is a big enough deal to bother refactoring it.

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> On Sep 1, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I haven't looked at the code (don't know how much duplicate code we're 
> talking about), but in general I would prefer putting shared logic in core, 
> to keep the published api as small as possible. All the bridge modules need 
> core to do useful work anyway...
> 
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> 
>> On 2014/09/02, at 5:50, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes exactly. It would be either do that, or make log4j-slf4j-impl and 
>> log4j-jcl depend on log4j-core. I'm not actually sure why they don't already 
>> depend on core other than the fact that they can get away without using it.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 1 September 2014 15:40, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> So are you suggesting we put the new code in the API SPI package and not in 
>>> core to avoid dragging in the core jar?
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Matt Sicker
>>> Date:09/01/2014 14:16 (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: Log4J Developers List
>>> Subject: Small addition to API suggestion.
>>> 
>>> I'm working on the JDK/JUL bridge again, and I noticed that there's a bit 
>>> of code duplication occurring in log4j-slf4j-impl as well as log4j-jcl. 
>>> This duplication is further duplicated in log4j-jdk which I'm working on 
>>> right now.
>>> 
>>> The duplication is making a weak hash map of LoggerContext to 
>>> ConcurrentMap<String, L> where L is some external logger class. What I'm 
>>> proposing is a simple SPI class I've temporarily called 
>>> ExternalLoggerContextRegistry<L>. The purpose of this interface is to 
>>> provide a standardized way to keep track of external loggers that are 
>>> bridged with Log4j loggers.
>>> 
>>> I'll push this work into a branch called LOG4J2-608 which is the JDK 
>>> logging bridge ticket. Class names are obviously not final. I wanted to put 
>>> this in core instead of api, but the bridges all use just the API.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]>

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