Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.18.0
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None
Description
mule's class ApplicationAwareRepositorySelector has getLoggerRepository() method, and within that it eventually tries to create a RootLogger.
In old log4j-1.2.16.jar this just created the RootLogger/Logger/Category hierarchy without any attempt to obtain a LoggerRepository. I disassembled the bytecode to check this.
in the bridge, the c'tor of Category calls LogManager.getLoggerRepository() and that method ends up recursively calling mule's ApplicationAwareRepositorySelector.getLoggerRepository()
```
at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.getLoggerRepository(LogManager.java:171)
at org.apache.log4j.Category.<init>(Category.java:177)
at org.apache.log4j.Category.<init>(Category.java:192)
at org.apache.log4j.Logger.<init>(Logger.java:57)
at org.apache.log4j.spi.RootLogger.<init>(RootLogger.java:39)
at org.mule.module.launcher.log4j.ApplicationAwareRepositorySelector.getLoggerRepository(ApplicationAwareRepositorySelector.java:62)
```
At this point I cannot yet tell, if this is a horrible wrong-doing of mule, or just one of a number of horrible incompatibilities between the bridge and the old real log4j.
I'm aware that mule-3.3.1 is helplessly out of lifetime, but that's what I thought the bridge was meant for: to help upgrading SW that "cannot do log4j2."