Add custom log4j2 appender for Karaf and Pax Logging - log4j2

I am trying to add new custom log4j2 appender. Karaf 3.0.2 use pax-logging 1.7.4 which does not support log4j2. I have a appender which extend org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.AbstractAppender.
I followed this blog http://blog.nanthrax.net/2012/12/create-custom-log4j-appender-for-karaf-and-pax-logging/ writen by Jean-Baptiste. It will not work because my appender is written in log4j2.
What are the alternatives so that karaf also log using this appender?

The answer is already in your question it doesn't work, and how is it supposed to.
Version 3.0.2 of Karaf does use Pax Logging 1.7.x wich doesn't support Log4j2.
So you just can't register a custom appender for log4j2, create a Log4j appender and add that to your configuration.
Or upgrade to Karaf 3.0.3 which uses Pax Logging 1.8.x which now also support Log4j2. Might want to try that.

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Log file not getting generated with log4j2

I migrated from log4j 1.x to log4j2.
I removed log4j.properties file and created log4j2.xml file.
After migration I ran the application but not able to find the .log file.
Can anyone suggest me the mistakes
I would suggest you add status="debug" to your configuration element in the log4j2.xml like:
<Configuration status="debug">
This will log log4j configuring itself. If you see no output then it means Log4j 2 isn't finding your configuration or Log4j isn't being used as the logging framework.

Log4j2 some logs are displayed on console

Recently I have upgraded my project from Log4j1 to Log4j2. I have included below dependencies jars in my project. Some of the logs are going to console. In case of Log4j1 these logs are going to the rolling file. I am not sure what is the reason. Can you please help?
log4j-api-2.13.0.jar
log4j-core-2.13.0.jar
It sounds like you have left the log4j 1.x jar in your project. You should remove it, along with the log4 1.x configuration, and replace it with log4j-1.2-api-2.13.0.jar.

Grails 3.0 and Spring Security

I'm using Grails 3.0.1 with IntelliJ Idea and I'm trying to use Spring Security plugin on my project.
I know that old spring-seurity-core plugin is not compatible with Grails 3.0 version. Thus I've tried to follow this tutorial: http://spiesdavid.blogspot.fi/2015/03/grails-3-app-with-security-part-1.html
I've added the compile line in build.gradle file in dependencies. I've also added the logger line in logback.groovy file.
Problems start after that. There is no such file as SecurityConfiguration.groovy and there is no org.springframework.security package so I can't import them and it gives an error. So I can't create the file either.
So I am assuming that your question is: «How do I get this to work?»
spring security plugin 3.0.0 (for grails 3.x) was released just a few days ago. Documentation is quite good. Start here: https://grails-plugins.github.io/grails-spring-security-core/
There are some problems with Intellij. I tried to add spring security to a slightly older grails project (started with intellij 15.0.1 and grails 3.0.9). Adding the dependencies was successful and rebuilding it made the plugin available, also in the grails console. But when I launched a debug instance of the application directly from the IDE, it would not show spring security among the loaded/installed plugins. I made a pristine project with IntelliJ 15.02, grails 3.0.10 and just copied my code over to the new project. Now it works.
Note there are some issue with IntelliJ not major. do the following it will work:
on your build.gradle add compile 'org.grails.plugins:spring-security-core:3.0.0.M2'
run command compile
run comand s2-quickstart yourAppName User Role
now you should see "application.groovy" file under conf folder
as usual use #Secured annotation in your controller

Grails 2.1.1 - Logback integration

I'm developing with Grails 2.1.1 and now I want to integrate Logback (http://logback.qos.ch) as the default logging framework as it should provide some better logging features and could be also configured via Groovy.
As Logback 1.0.7 (latest) does only work with slf4j 1.6.6 I want to upgrade the Grails dependeny. Grails 2.1.1 is using slf4j 1.6.2. How to do this properly?
I tried the following: in BuildConfig.groovy I exclude grails-plugin-log4j and slf4j-api
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
// inherit Grails' default dependencies
inherits("global") {
excludes "grails-plugin-log4j", "slf4j-api"
}
...
}
and I try to load slf4j-api 1.6.6 in compile build and runtime along with the other necessary libraries
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
...
dependencies {
// specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes eg.
compile "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.6.6"
build "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.6.6",
"ch.qos.logback:logback-core:1.0.7",
"ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.0.7"
runtime "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.6.6",
"org.slf4j:log4j-over-slf4j:1.6.6", // logback dependency for classic module, as seen on http://logback.qos.ch/dependencies.html
"ch.qos.logback:logback-core:1.0.7",
"ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.0.7"
}
...
}
now, if I want to do anything from the Grails commandline, either grails compile or grails clean, it's complaining that it couldn't execute the script because it couldn't find the LoggerFactory class:
| Loading Grails 2.1.1
| Configuring classpath
| Error Error executing script Compile: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory (NOTE: Stack trace has been filtered. Use --verbose to see entire trace.)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLogFactory.getInstance(SLF4JLogFactory.java:156)
at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SLF4JLogFactory.getInstance(SLF4JLogFactory.java:132)
at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:272)
at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.<clinit>(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:169)
| Error Error executing script Compile: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory
How can I upgrade the underlying slf4j-api properly?
If I don't exclude the slf4j-api first, I get a conflict with the "old" 1.6.2 api marked as evicted when calling grails dependency-report...
Also, I'd love to have an external config file for Logback. How would I implement it? With Log4j I just declared a log4jConfigurer bean within the conf/spring/resources.groovy file - how would it be done with Logback?
Has anybody experience in logging Grails 2.1.1 with Logback and could give me any advice for this issue?
As I think that this question would be also a matter of fact for other developers willing to implement the Logback Logging Framework with Grails, I'll share my progress on the topic within this answer - trying not to overload the initial question with progress information.
I still had no luck in updating slf4j within Grails, so I stuck
with the solution to simply overload the slf4j-api dependency.
Grails would show no error on grails dependency-report, just an
"eviction notice" on the older slf4j dependency (1.6.2). This seems
to work but I'll keep on searching for a better solution on this
topic.
I'm now able to load an external config file for Logback through
a ServletContextListener and a ConfigLoader class
implemented in grails-app/src/java, with the
ServletContextListener registered within the web.xml file. (to
get the web.xml simply execute grails install-templates on the
commandline. You'll find it under
grails-app/src/templates/war/web.xml) Be sure to make it the first
<listener/> entry within your web.xml so that Logback gets
configured and loaded as soon as possible.
I found this solution along with the full code sample over at
https://bowerstudios.com/node/896 which was the best and shortest
example I found on this topic which seems to work!
This solution just loaded the external configuration file and used
it within the ConfigLoader class but didn't set it for the whole
Grails application. So I googled around a bit more and I found a
solution from Logback, available at GitHub (https://github.com/qos-ch/logback-extensions) and integrating with the
Spring Framework, so I took these classes from this page and
the LogbackConfigurer class from here and tweaked them to fit
my needs.
Now everything works like a charm and I'am able to create an external configuration file and - what I like best - it's hooking in
with the log object which is injected to e.g. Controller classes
by default.
Hope this is also a help for other developers too ;)
If you've got a better or more "groovy" solution for this, pleas let me know!

Issue Deploying a Grails 2.1.1 app to JBoss because of Xerces

I have a Grails app that uses the Rest plugin
When I drop my war into my JBoss deploy directory and start it up, the deployment of the app fails because of the following error:
2012-11-01 15:48:33,931 ERROR [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.JBossContextConfig] XML error parsing: context.xml
org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Failed to create a new SAX parser
I believe this refers to the grails app containing a version on xercesImpl as well as JBoss having it's own. We usually rectify this by removing xercesImpl from our apps or setting them to "provided" scope.
I'm trying to figure out how I fix this deploy issue. I'm assuming I have to edit the BuildConfig.groovy script and tell it, somehow, to exclude xerces right? How would I do that for this plugin? If this were a "dependency" that appears to be easy to specify the exclusions. But I'm not sure how to do it for this plugin...
any ideas?
In your BuildConfig.groovy add this:
inherits('global') {
excludes 'serializer'
}
It turns out, doing the following in the plugin section of my BuildConfig.groovy did the trick after all...
compile(":rest:0.7"){
excludes "xercesImpl"
}

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