LogBack as SharedLibrary in IBM WebSphere 8.5

Question

I want to use LogBack with IBM WebSphere 8.5 as a Shared Library. My problem is I don't know where to put the logback.xml so I can redirects some of my logs to different files. Currently all my logs are directed to System.out.log in WAS, which I don't want.

I've tried to put the logback.xml in my Dynamic Application Project WEB-INF/classes folder, in my EJB Project ejbModule folder, with no success.

I've tried googling all over, but I cannot find anything pointing to this issue.

Any idea?

Regards,

Answer 1

I've successfully used SLF4J API with Logback implementation with WAS 7. My configuration was:

• logback-classic-x.jar, logback-core-x.jar (, slf4j-api-x.jar) in my EAR's lib directory
• logback.xml in my EJB's root source folder (ejbModule)

And that was it.

Placing logback.xml in a JAR and placing that JAR into your EAR's lib should also work.

Don't you get any logback related errors during application startup?

Answer 2

From Logback FAQ :

put logback.xml in

• any folder declared in classpath
• WEB-INF/classes directly