Spring Boot ignoring logback-spring.xml

Question

I have 2 Spring Boot (1.4.1-RELEASE) console applications using Logback. Both configuration files are more or less identical, are located in my /src/main/resources

Answer 1

To use Logback, you need to include it and spring-jcl on the classpath. The simplest way to do that is through the starters, which all depend on spring-boot-starter-logging. For a web application, you need only spring-boot-starter-web, since it depends transitively on the logging starter. If you use Maven, the following dependency adds logging for you:

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-starter-web

So remove the logging dependency it is redundant.