Log4j2 custom plugins - annotation processing with Maven Assembly Plugin

Question

I am not very familiar with Maven, I started using it just yesterday, but I like it. In my project I use Log4j2 library for logging and because of insuffici

Answer 1

Another solution is mentioned in Log4j 2 issue 673. Use maven shade plugin with specific transformer instead of maven assembly plugin.

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-shade-plugin
  2.4.3
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      com.github.edwgiz
      maven-shade-plugin.log4j2-cachefile-transformer
      2.6.1
    
  
  
    
      make-assembly
      package
      
        shade
      
    
  

If I understand it accurately, transformer creates Log4j2Plugins.dat file by correctly merging Log4j2Plugins.dat from all dependencies and the main jar, i.e. all plugins will be included.