I'm working on a system that is composed of over a hundred microservices, and many of them are on various older versions of log4j2.
There is an in-house library that many of the microservices share, and the library has some logging configuration code, so I'm trying to figure out the relationship between that library and the various versions of log4j2. On Jan 16, 2018 12:16 PM, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > In general, you should be using the current version 2.10.0. Any reason you > are digging deep into old versions? > > Also, I've not been very strict about using @since in log4j-core. In > log4j-api, we are very careful to do it all "right."" > > Gary > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Mike Wertheim <mike.werth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/log4j-core/apidocs/ > > org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/RollingFileAppender.html > > describes a method called "newBuilder". This method doesn't have a > "since" > > version, so I would assume that it's supported in all log4j2 versions. > > > > However, the expression RollingFileAppender.newBuilder() compiles fine > > with > > version 2.7, but I get "error: cannot find symbol" when I try to compile > it > > with version 2.6. > > > > Similarly.... According to > > https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/log4j-core/apidocs/ > > org/apache/logging/log4j/core/appender/RollingFileAppender.Builder.html, > > it seems that the 'setConfiguration' method should be available in all > 2.x > > versions of log4j2. > > > > However, the expression > > RollingFileAppender.newBuilder().setConfiguration(config).build() > compiles > > fine with version 2.10.0, but I get "error: cannot find symbol" when I > try > > to compile it with version 2.7. > > > > In both cases, it seems like the javadoc says that a method exists in all > > 2.x log4j2 versions, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Are these > > methods only available in a subset of log4j2 versions? Is the javadoc > > missing the "since version" information for these methods? > > >
