[LOG4J2-595] Support plugin preloading through the standard javax.annotation.processing tool

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-rc2
• Fix Version/s: 2.0-rc2
• Component/s: Core
• Labels: annotations compiler plugins

Environment

Recent versions of Java and Maven

• Assignee: Matt Sicker
• Reporter: Matt Sicker
• Created: 05/Apr/14 18:09
• Updated: 26/Jul/14 11:50
• Resolved: 06/Apr/14 03:03

Description

Currently, in order to preload plugins, you have to add an exec-maven-plugin task to scan your code. Ideally, there'd be an annotations artifact (at least for the plugin annotations, but really just has to have all the necessary ones used for this) and a processor artifact that you'd include in your project. Then the maven-compiler-plugin would automatically run that annotation processor on your project during the compile phase. This would require less work from the end user to support their own custom plugins.

Issue Links

• breaks: LOG4J2-741 Reinstate the package attribute for discovering custom plugins