+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.log4j.spi;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+/**
+ * NullWriter is an obsolete class provided only for
+ * binary compatibility with earlier versions of log4j and should not be used.
+ *
+ * @deprecated
+ */
+class NullWriter extends Writer {
+
+ public void close() {
+ // blank
+ }
+
+ public void flush() {
+ // blank
+ }
+
+ public void write(char[] cbuf, int off, int len) {
+ // blank
+ }
+}