What are the available options to retrieve Spring-managed beans in a Log4J Appender inside a Spring-managed web application?

Question

My current build lead has a great idea in theory - construct a custom Log4J appender that takes in Spring-managed beans and uses them to log errors to various other sources

Answer 1

Bit late, but I hope that this can help someone else. I've documented a solution to this issue in the answer i've provided in the following link:

log4j - Accessing spring bean from logging appender class