Log4j 2 Implementation
The Log4j 2 implementation provides the functional components of the logging system.
Users are free to create their own plugins and include them in the logging configuration.
Requirements
As of version 2.4, Log4j 2 requires Java 7. Versions 2.3 and earlier require Java 6.
Some features may require optional
dependencies. These dependencies are specified in the
documentation for those features.
Below is a list of Log4j features that require external dependencies.
See the Dependency Tree
for the exact list of JAR files needed for these features.
- JSON configuration requires the Jackson Data Processor.
- Async Loggers require the LMAX Disruptor.
- The SMTPAppender requires Javax Mail.
- The JMSQueueAppender and JMSTopicAppender require a JMS implementation like
Apache ActiveMQ.
- The Kafka appender requires Kafka client library
- Windows console color support requires Jansi.
- The JDBC Appender requires a JDBC driver for the database you choose to write events to.
- The JPA Appender requires the Java Persistence API classes, a JPA provider implementation,
and a decorated entity that the user implements. It also requires an appropriate JDBC driver.
- The NoSQL Appender with MongoDB provider requires the MongoDB Java Client driver.
- The NoSQL Appender with Apache CouchDB provider requires the LightCouch CouchDB client library.
- The NoSQL Appender can be customized with a user-supplied provider, which will require the
appropriate client library.
- bzip2, Deflate, Pack200, and XZ compression on rollover requires
Apache Commons Compress. In addition,
XZ requires XZ for Java.
- The CSV layout requires the Apache Commons CSV library.
- The ZeroMQ/JeroMQ requires the JeroMQ library.
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