[Bug]: org.apache.arrow dependency introduced unsupported SLF4J 2

[Abacn]

What happened?

We bumped org.apache.arrow to major version 15. It contains slf4j 2.x binding, causing Beam pipelines having slf4j 2 runtime dependency which is not supported:

pipeline submission log:

SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See https://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders for further details.
SLF4J: Class path contains SLF4J bindings targeting slf4j-api versions 1.7.x or earlier.
SLF4J: Ignoring binding found at [jar:file:/Users/.../.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.slf4j/slf4j-jdk14/1.7.36/4a18af6554bfe48b0f76eec98119c417da23c7e1/slf4j-jdk14-1.7.36.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]

Dataflow worker log:

2024-02-13 13:33:28.310 EST
Please use a logger instead of System.out or System.err. Please switch to using org.slf4j.Logger. See: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/pipelines/logging
2024-02-13 13:33:28.383 EST
Please use a logger instead of System.out or System.err. Please switch to using org.slf4j.Logger. See: https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/pipelines/logging

Issue Priority

Priority: 1 (data loss / total loss of function)

Issue Components

• Component: Python SDK
• Component: Java SDK
• Component: Go SDK
• Component: Typescript SDK
• Component: IO connector
• Component: Beam YAML
• Component: Beam examples
• Component: Beam playground
• Component: Beam katas
• Component: Website
• Component: Spark Runner
• Component: Flink Runner
• Component: Samza Runner
• Component: Twister2 Runner
• Component: Hazelcast Jet Runner
• Component: Google Cloud Dataflow Runner