blob: 8edfd5dd58bfd174568f6bd811489df5146d9b2d [file] [log] [blame]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!--
| (Unfortunately) copied from the Fluido skin to allow the footer to be centered.
-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>
Log4J 2 API</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/apache-maven-fluido.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/site.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/print.css" media="print" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="./js/apache-maven-fluido.min.js"></script>
<meta name="author" content="Ralph Goers" />
<meta name="Date-Revision-yyyymmdd" content="20120729" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
</head>
<body class="topBarDisabled">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div id="banner">
<div class="pull-left">
<a href="../index.html" id="bannerLeft">
<img src="../images/ls-logo.jpg" alt="Logging Services"/>
</a>
</div>
<div class="pull-right"> <div id="bannerRight">
<img src="../images/logo.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"><hr/></div>
</div>
<div id="breadcrumbs">
<ul class="breadcrumb">
<li id="publishDate">Last Published: 2012-07-29</li>
<li class="divider">|</li> <li id="projectVersion">Version: 2.0-alpha1</li>
<li class="pull-right"> <a href="../index.html" title="Log4j">Log4j</a>
</li>
<li class="divider pull-right">|</li>
<li class="pull-right"> <a href="../../../" title="Logging Services">Logging Services</a>
</li>
<li class="divider pull-right">|</li>
<li class="pull-right"> <a href="http://www.apache.org/" class="externalLink" title="Apache">Apache</a>
</li>
<li class="divider pull-right">|</li>
<li class="pull-right"> <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/logging" class="externalLink" title="Logging Wiki">Logging Wiki</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="row-fluid">
<div id="leftColumn" class="span2">
<div class="well sidebar-nav">
<h3>Apache Log4j™ 2</h3>
<ul>
<li class="none">
<a href="../index.html" title="About">About</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../download.html" title="Download">Download</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../build.html" title="Build and Install">Build and Install</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../changelog.html" title="Changelog">Changelog</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manual</h3>
<ul>
<li class="none">
<a href="../manual/index.html" title="Introduction">Introduction</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../manual/architecture.html" title="Architecture">Architecture</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/api.html" title="API">API</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/configuration.html" title="Configuration">Configuration</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/plugins.html" title="Plugins">Plugins</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/lookups.html" title="Lookups">Lookups</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/appenders.html" title="Appenders">Appenders</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/layouts.html" title="Layouts">Layouts</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/filters.html" title="Filters">Filters</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../manual/jmx.html" title="JMX">JMX</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../manual/logsep.html" title="Logging Separation">Logging Separation</a>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="../manual/extending.html" title="Extending Log4j">Extending Log4j</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Logging Adapters</h3>
<ul>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j12-api/api.html" title="Log4j 1.x API">Log4j 1.x API</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j2-jcl/api.html" title="Commons Logging">Commons Logging</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../slf4j-impl/api.html" title="SLF4J">SLF4J</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Components</h3>
<ul>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j-api/index.html" title="API">API</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j-core/index.html" title="Impl">Impl</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j12-api/index.html" title="Log4J 1.2 API">Log4J 1.2 API</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j-jcl/index.html" title="Commons Logging Bridge">Commons Logging Bridge</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../slf4j-impl/index.html" title="SLF4J Binding">SLF4J Binding</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="../log4j-flume-ng/index.html" title="Apache Flume">Apache Flume</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>API Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li class="expanded">
<a href="project-info.html" title="Project Information">Project Information</a>
<ul>
<li class="none">
<strong>About</strong>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="dependencies.html" title="Dependencies">Dependencies</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="dependency-convergence.html" title="Dependency Convergence">Dependency Convergence</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="dependency-management.html" title="Dependency Management">Dependency Management</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="team-list.html" title="Project Team">Project Team</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="mail-lists.html" title="Mailing Lists">Mailing Lists</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="issue-tracking.html" title="Issue Tracking">Issue Tracking</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="license.html" title="Project License">Project License</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="source-repository.html" title="Source Repository">Source Repository</a>
</li>
<li class="none">
<a href="project-summary.html" title="Project Summary">Project Summary</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="collapsed">
<a href="project-reports.html" title="Project Reports">Project Reports</a>
</li>
</ul>
<hr class="divider" />
<div id="poweredBy">
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<a href="http://maven.apache.org/" title="Built by Maven" class="poweredBy">
<img class="poweredBy" alt="Built by Maven" src="./images/logos/maven-feather.png" />
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bodyColumn" class="span10" >
<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License. -->
<div class="section"><h2>Log4j 2 API<a name="Log4j_2_API"></a></h2>
<p>
The Log4Jj 2 API provides the interface that applications should code to and provides the
adapter components required for implementers to create a logging implementation.
</p>
</div>
<div class="section"><h2>Requirements<a name="Requirements"></a></h2>
<p>
The Log4j 2 API requires at least Java 5.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr/>
<footer>
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row footer">Copyright &copy; 1999-2012 <a href="http://www.apache.org">Apache Software Foundation</a>. All Rights Reserved.</br />
Apache Logging, Apache Log4j, Log4j, Apache, the Apache feather logo, and the Apache Logging project logo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.</div>
</div>
</footer>
</body>
</html>