Apache Log4j provides the interface that applications should code to and provides the adapter components required for implementers to create a logging implementation.

Bytecode (Java 1.4) for Apache Log4j is provided in a JAR file like log4j-1.2.17.jar.

Source Code files for Apache Log4j are provided in both binary packge like log4j-1.2.17.zip and source package like log4j-1.2.17-sources.zip. You can download them at Apache Log4j Website.

You can also browse Source Code files for Apache Log4j 1.2.17 below.

⏎ org/apache/log4j/xml/Log4jEntityResolver.java

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package org.apache.log4j.xml;

import org.apache.log4j.helpers.LogLog;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

/**
 * An {@link EntityResolver} specifically designed to return
 * <code>log4j.dtd</code> which is embedded within the log4j jar
 * file. 
 *
 * @author Paul Austin
 * */
public class Log4jEntityResolver implements EntityResolver {
  private static final String PUBLIC_ID = "-//APACHE//DTD LOG4J 1.2//EN";

  public InputSource resolveEntity (String publicId, String systemId) {
    if (systemId.endsWith("log4j.dtd")  || PUBLIC_ID.equals(publicId)) {
      Class clazz = getClass();
      InputStream in = clazz.getResourceAsStream("/org/apache/log4j/xml/log4j.dtd");
      if (in == null) {
	    LogLog.warn("Could not find [log4j.dtd] using [" + clazz.getClassLoader()
		     + "] class loader, parsed without DTD.");
        in = new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[0]);
      }
	  return new InputSource(in);
    } else {
      return null;
    }
  }
}

⏎ org/apache/log4j/xml/Log4jEntityResolver.java

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File name: log4j-1.2.17-sources.jar
File size: 481200 bytes
Release date: 2012-05-06
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