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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-2132: ---------------------------------- Yeah it definitely makes sense to move the log4j appender out of core. I don't think we should add it to clients, though, as clients currently depends on slf4j (the whole point of which is to avoid a direct log4j dependency). Arguably the whole java logging thing is silly since everyone ends up depending on log4j in the end anyway, but I guess for appearances sake we should try not to be the library that causes that? :-) So I think maybe just making a separate log4j module is the best approach? Kind of silly to have a whole jar with just one class but I guess I don't see another option. > Move Log4J appender to clients module > ------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2132 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2132 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Gwen Shapira > Assignee: Ashish K Singh > > Log4j appender is just a producer. > Since we have a new producer in the clients module, no need to keep Log4J > appender in "core" and force people to package all of Kafka with their apps. > Lets move the Log4jAppender to clients module. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)