My code is very simple using apache-log4j-2.0.2:
import org.apache.log4j.BasicConfigurator;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
public class Log4jtest {
static Logger log =Logger.getLogger(Log4jtest.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
BasicConfigurator.configure();
log.debug("This is debug message");
}
}
But I'm getting exception like:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.logging.slf4j.SLF4JLoggerContext cannot be cast to org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext``
at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:41)
at Log4jtest.<clinit>(Log4jtest.java:11)
Why is the exception coming from a simple program?
Remove below jar's from class path and it should fix the issue -
log4j-to-slf4j-2.0.2.jar
log4j-to-slf4j-2.0.2-sources.jar
log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0.2.jar
log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0.2-sources.jar
I was able to replicate and fix the issue after downloading
apache-log4j-2.0.2 from
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/logging/log4j/2.0.2/apache-log4j-2.0.2-bin.zip.
I was using Maven. I found that declaring my log4j
/slf4j
dependencies at the top of the <dependencies>
list (before Spring Boot, which used logback
) fixed the issue.
To @TheCodingFrog's credit, adding exclusions to my Spring Boot dependencies also solved the problem. Like so:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>...</groupId>
<artifactId>...</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>*</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
NOTE: If you care about which logging framework is actually used, one perhaps important difference is that with @TheCodingFrog's method, slf4j
retained logback
as the binding:
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextSelectorStaticBinder]
whereas, with the method I used, slf4j
/log4j
was used:
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
In case anyone's interested, the log4j
/slf4j
dependencies I used are:
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.17</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.7.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>1.7.7</version>
</dependency>