[Building Sakai] Too many copies of log4j.jar ??

[Steve Swinsburg]

Profile2 can have the log4j jar removed. I'm doing it now.

cheers,
S

On 11/09/2012, at 7:18 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:

> In general one does not want to see multiple copies of a logging
> implementation. At most, you might have multiple copies of your
> logging abstraction (slf4j or JCL) but even that is problematic
> (especially for JCL). I would say that we probably want all of these
> switched over to only include log4j for testing (especially since no
> one should be using log4j directly). That's probably what they meant
> to do anyway (I would guess).
> 
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>> I am playing with the 2-9-x branch and there are too many log4j jar files:
>>>> 
>>>> ./common/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar
>>>> ./components/profile2-pack/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>>> ./webapps/accountvalidator/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>>> ./webapps/mailsender-tool/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>>> ./webapps/profile2-tool/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>>> ./webapps/sakai-gradebook-tool/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>>> ./webapps/sakai-reset-pass/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>>> ./webapps/sakai-site-manage-group-section-role-helper/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar
>>> 
>>> Many of these tools have "indie" status or are separately maintained.
>>> It is very possible that are not up to date (this is a somewhat
>>> frequent occurrence).
>> 
>> But these tools should just assume that log4j is in shared and make the tiny change to their pom.
>> 
>> Or is there a valid reason to put the jar in warts here and there.
>> 
>> Seems like a little nice thing to clean up.
>> 
>> /Chuck
>> 
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