Hi,
I had been using the betas for a couple of years and everything was fine.
But unfortunately I cannot seem to make 2.0.x work.
I have couple of plugins (converters) that are annotated properly, but the
automatic detection of these never did work and I had to use the follow
maven step to create the necessary Log4j2Plugins.dat for it to work.
<plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.2.1</version>
<executions> <execution> <phase>process-classes</phase> <goals>
<goal>java</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration>
<mainClass>org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginManager</mainClass>
<arguments>
<argument>${project.build.directory}/../src/main/resources</argument>
<argument>my.package</argument> </arguments> </configuration> </plugin>
But since rc2 the PluginManager was disabled, and it's now seemingly
impossible to get the plugins registered. The source for PluginManager
suggests looking at the configuration page supposedly using the packages
attr to tell the framework where to scan for plugins, but again, that just
doesn't work. I used that as well in the betas where it also did not work.
Perhaps in trivial project setups it works fine, I don't know, but I have
an ear with multiple .wars and a common single log4j2 (present in the ear's
lib where the jar for my converters is also present) and I don't know why
it cannot pick it up.
Any workarounds? I can't understand why it should be this difficult to
register a converter.
Regards,
