pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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>org.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>log4j-rce</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <!--
      add properties to fix compilation error

      source contribution from stack overflow link
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53034953/error-source-option-5-is-no-longer-supported-use-6-or-later-on-maven-compile
    -->
    <properties>
      <maven.compiler.source>6</maven.compiler.source>
      <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.logging.log4j/log4j-core -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.14.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.logging.log4j/log4j-api -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.14.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <!--
      add assembly to fix noclassfound error in
        java -cp log4j-rce-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar log4j

      use the following instead
          java -cp log4j-rce-1.0-SNAPSHOT-all.jar log4j

      source contribution from the following link
      https://github.com/jeffli1024/log4j-rce-test/blob/main/apache-log4j-poc/pom.xml
    -->
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.19.1</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-all</finalName>
                    <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>make-assembly</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>