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Recently, I was questionned about testing log4j2 and slf4j on an IBM Content Navigator plugin. Because this software load the jar as a “java -jar” execution, there is some formalism to respect.

Prerequisites

Maven 3.6.0
IBM Content Navigator 3.0.3

Pom definition

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
  http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>my.group.id</groupId>
  <artifactId>icn-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>make-assembly</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>single</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/</outputDirectory>
              <finalName>IcnPlugin.jar</finalName>
              <archive>
                <manifestEntries>
                  <Plugin-Class>my.group.id.IcnPlugin</Plugin-Class>
                </manifestEntries>
              </archive>
              <descriptorRefs>
                <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
              </descriptorRefs>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

  <dependencies>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.12</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
      <version>2.11.1</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.ibm.filenet</groupId>
      <artifactId>icn-3.0.0</artifactId>
      <version>icn300.000.41</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.ibm.ws.javaee</groupId>
      <artifactId>servlet</artifactId>
      <version>3.0</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

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