[LOG4J2-379] Problem using log4j2 in Google App Engine

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta8
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc1
• Component/s: Core

Environment

Google App Engine

• Assignee: Remko Popma
• Reporter: Remko Popma
• Created: 01/Sep/13 11:28
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 03:15
• Resolved: 23/Sep/13 03:15

Description

[INFO] Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.lang.management.ManagementFactory is a restricted class. Please see the Google  App Engine developer's guide for more details.
[INFO]  at com.google.appengine.tools.development.agent.runtime.Runtime.reject(Runtime.java:51)
[INFO]  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.OnStartupTriggeringPolicy.<clinit>(OnStartupTriggeringPolicy.java:33)
[INFO]  at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
[INFO]  at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:186)
[INFO]  at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.PluginManager.decode(PluginManager.java:222

This seems to be caused by the OnStartupTriggeringPolicy class initializing a static field with this code:

private static final long JVM_START_TIME = ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getStartTime();

Is there a workaround for this?