Ankit -----Original Message----- From: Berneburg, Cris J. - US Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:35 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Using Log4J2 2.8 (via the 1.2 API Bridge) for Tomcat8 Internal Logging - RollingFileAppender does not (cannot?) create new Log File
>> The only problem is that Tomcat only supports the Log4J >> 1.x API. It doesn't natively support Log4J2 so we have >> to use the 1.x -> 2.x Bridge and some things do not work. > > OK, can you get it basically working with the older Log4J > instead, without the fancy stuff, just to investigate? > > Also, I don't know the interface between Tomcat/Log4J. I > would have guessed that Log4J would need to conform to the > Apache Commons Logging API, not the other way around. But > again, I'm new to this. Below is something interesting that Mark Thomas (current Tomcat maintainer) has to say about Tomcat and Log4J/2: -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 1:22 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: tomcat-embed-logging-juli not updated in Maven Central? > log4j is no longer supported. Its replacement, log4j2, can > hook directly into the java.util.logging framework. Therefore, > there is no need for the separate modules. The classes from > the tomcat-embed-logging-juli JAR were merged into the core JAR. -- Cris Berneburg CACI Lead Software Engineer
