[LOG4J2-15] Provide a "Proxy" Appender to support lazy initialization of Appenders.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-alpha1
• Component/s: Appenders
• Assignee: Ralph Goers
• Reporter: Ralph Goers
• Created: 22/Jun/08 22:05
• Updated: 15/Nov/13 07:11
• Resolved: 01/May/12 04:14

Description

In the environment I work in we share the logging configuration across several JVMs. Some Appender definitions might not apply to a particular JVM. Rather than requiring the classes for the actual appender be available during initialization we had our own logging framework that supported Appender creation the first time it was published to. This can be accomplished by configuring a Proxy and the actual Appender under the proxy.