Bug 48991

Summary:	Unnecessary artifact dependencies for 1.2.15 release.
Product:	Log4j - Now in Jira	Reporter:	Arvind Prabhakar <arvind>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	log4j-dev <log4j-dev>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	arvind
Priority:	P2
Version:	1.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Arvind Prabhakar 2010-03-26 01:58:16 UTC

The pom packaged with 1.2.15 release of log4j published in the central maven repository has dependencies including the following:

- javax.mail:main
- javax.jms:jms
- com.sun.jdmk:jmxtools
- com.sun.jmx:jmxri

This forces projects that wish to upgrade to log4j 1.2.15 to either provide these dependencies or manually exclude them. Moreover, some of these dependencies are not available in central maven repository due to license restrictions.

Suggested Fix: 
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Please mark these dependencies as optional so that consumers of log4j are not forced to include or manually exclude them.

Comment 1 Curt Arnold 2010-03-26 05:39:31 UTC

Previously reported in bugs 43304 and 48216.  Should be fixed in the current SVN HEAD which should become log4j 1.2.16 shortly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43304 ***