Log4j 2
This project is the Apache software foundation project and is supported by an active development team. It is a widely used and well documented framework. The updated version Log4j 2 brought more functionality and can be used as an audit logging framework. There is an interesting upgrade in Log4j 2 that is missing from Log4j 1.x and Logback. In Log4j 1.x and Logback, while re-configuring the framework, they are losing events; however, Log4j 2.x has overcome this problem.
Generally, Logback ignores the exceptions that occurred in Appenders whereas Log4j 2 allows configuring the exceptions to be bubbled to the application. Appenders is a mechanism in the logging framework that helps to deliver log events to their destination. They are ...
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