[LOG4J2-2802] Log4j-core must only require java.base

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Core
• Epic Link: Log4j-core modularization
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralph Goers
• Created: 06/Mar/20 15:14
• Updated: 17/Jan/22 21:13

Description

One of the main goals of 3.0.x is to have each of the log4j jars be declared with a module-info.java file to make it be a true participant in JPMS. When creating the module-info.java for Log4j core it needs to only have a required dependency on the java.base module. This means things like:

• The script engine is included in java.scripting
• XML processing is generally in java.xml.

must either be able to be declared as transitive dependencies or be separated into their own modules.

Issue Links

• is related to: LOG4J2-2795 Make LogManager/LoggerContext creation time reasonable