JBoss EAP 7.4 log4j 2 API

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Issue

  • When log4j 2 api was added in EAP 7?
  • When log4jv2 api was added in EAP 7?
  • How to use it?
  • How to not use it? (exclude it)
  • Migrating to EAP 7.4 , our application which packages Apache Log4j2 is having classloading errors such as:
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext
    at org.apache.logging.log4j.core.selector.ClassLoaderContextSelector.createContext(ClassLoaderContextSelector.java:254)

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 7.x

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