[KAFKA-2132] Move Log4J appender to a separate module

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Assignee: Ashish Singh
• Reporter: Gwen Shapira
• Reviewer: Jun Rao
• Created: 18/Apr/15 23:33
• Updated: 06/Jul/15 23:37
• Resolved: 06/Jul/15 23:37

Description

Log4j appender is just a producer.
Since we have a new producer in the clients module, no need to keep Log4J appender in "core" and force people to package all of Kafka with their apps.

Lets move the Log4jAppender to clients module.