Do I need to flush events when shutting down using logback?

Question

We are migrating to logback from log4j for several web apps. In the shutdown of our application we currently call:

org.apache.log4j.LogManager.shutdown();
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Answer 1

I'm not aware of an overall manager shutdown like log4j's but I close all my individual context loggers when their context is destroyed using a ServletContextListener like so:

ContextSelector selector = StaticLoggerBinder.getSingleton().getContextSelector();
LoggerContext context = selector.detachLoggerContext(contextName);
if (context != null) {
    Logger logger = context.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
    context.reset();
} else {
    System.err.printf("No context named %s was found", contextName);
}

Also, LoggerContext.stop() is svailable and does some of the same functions internally but I don't use it, so I can't comment on whether its better than reset or not.