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<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
<artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
<version>${tika.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<!--
This exclusion will become obsolete at some point but better to keep it now.
tika-parsers usually excludes commons-logging explicitly but upstream libraries
may add it to their direct or transitive dependencies
-->
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<!-- We exclude slf4j bridges and replace them with native log4j 2.x ones below -->
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- slf4j implementation to forward logs to log4j 2.x -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
<version>${log4j2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- log4j 2.x bridges to forward java.util.logging, jcl/commons-logging and log4j 1.2.x to log4j 2.x -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-jul</artifactId>
<version>${log4j2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-jcl</artifactId>
<version>${log4j2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-1.2-api</artifactId>
<version>${log4j2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- logging backend: log4j 2.x -->
<!-- this dependency declarations are optional since org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j-impl depends on them transitively -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${log4j2.version></version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
<version>${log4j.version></version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
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