Looks like this class was made final in January 2013. The commit message mentions checkstyle errors. What change are you proposing? Would just removing the final keyword from the class definition be enough to fulfill your needs?
It may be good to raise this as a feature request in Jira. If you need more changes than just making the class non-final, please attach a patch with the changes you have in mind. On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Michael Schall <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm upgrading an application to use Log4j2. With our existing > implementation we have created a new appender which extends the > SMTPAppender. I see the SMTPAppender is a final class now which prevents > me from extending it. I was wondering what the reason for this is? Do we > really need to re-implement the the entire SMTPAppender (properties, > buffering, ...) to extend the appender? > > Thanks for your time. > > Mike >
