auto-start not happening

[arnieHouston]

I've been reading and re-reading and googling to no avail on this.
The LB doc says that LB just "starts up", looks for the config file, and runs.

But that's not happening. I've put the logbook.xml file in various locations/jars and unless I write code to force a reconfiguration, nothing is detected.

I'm using JDK 1.8, WLS 12, LB 1.2.13. I can't upgrade just yet but in the meantime, I'd like logbook to startup immediately when the server starts deployment so I can get logging from libraries like Spring WHILE deployment is happening, not after the web app has finished initializing.

Is this not possible?

[ceki]

@arnieHouston Have you tried forcing logback-classic to output its status messages.

This can be done by setting the logback.statusListenerClass on the java command line.

java -Dlogback.statusListenerClass=stdout

See https://logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#logback.statusLC