[GEODE-5001] Update logj4 dependency to better integrate with Spring

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: build, logging
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Barbara Pruijn
• Reporter: Anthony Baker
• Created: 05/Apr/18 15:09
• Updated: 03/Oct/18 21:37
• Resolved: 16/May/18 16:59

Description

The current geode log4j dependency is v2.8.2. Spring (Boot, Data, etc) use log4j v2.11.0. This make integration challenging. We should upgrade our dependency to match Spring. This will make it easier for our users to write geode applications.

Checking for other updates using

gradle dependencyUpdates
find . -name report.txt | xargs grep -e "\]$" | grep -v "org.apache.geode" | tr -s " " | cut -d' ' -f3- | sort | uniq | less

show that we have some other libraries that can be updated as well:

com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations [2.9.4 -> 2.9.5]
com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core [2.9.4 -> 2.9.5]
com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind [2.9.4 -> 2.9.5]
com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-scala_2.10 [2.9.4 -> 2.9.5]
com.google.guava:guava [24.0-jre -> 24.1-jre]
com.google.protobuf:protoc [3.5.1 -> 3.5.1-1]
com.zaxxer:HikariCP [2.7.6 -> 3.0.0]

Issue Links

• is blocked by: GEODE-5189 Refactor SessionReplicationIntegrationJUnitTest to not require PerTestClassLoaderRunner
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1741
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1938
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1951