Add ability to manually specify configuration BEFORE autoconfiguration ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: LBCLASSIC-300 URL: http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCLASSIC-300 Project: logback-classic Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 0.9.29 Reporter: Phil Assignee: Logback dev list Priority: Minor In order to make logback initialization faster, I would like the ability to programmatically configure logback and avoid the logic that happens in ContextInitializer.autoConfig(). Specifically, refer to this stack that occurs when getILoggerFactory() is initially called... ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextInitializer.autoConfig() line: 147 org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.init() line: 85 org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.<clinit>() line: 55 org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.bind() line: 121 org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.performInitialization() line: 111 org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory() line: 268 Now, for some background... I am using logback for a fast executing CLI program. Right now, initializing logback dominates the execution time of my CLIs. For example... When I started with logback, I was using logback.xml. If one of my CLIs took 1.5 seconds to run, I would see that initializing logback was taking 1 of those seconds (I used the yourkit profiler to identify this). 66% of the execution time is unacceptable. So, I switched from using logback.xml to programatically configuring logback in Java with the following code.. {code} LoggerContext loggingContext = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(); loggingContext.reset(); ... FileAppender<ILoggingEvent> fileAppender = new FileAppender<ILoggingEvent>(); ... Logger rootLogger = loggingContext.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME); rootLogger.addAppender(fileAppender); {code} This reduced the initialization time quite a bit. Now logback initialization is taking about .3 seconds. This is much better. However, I still think this can be improved by completely skipping the auto config logic. The initial call to LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory() will attempt to auto configure logback.... which searches for groovy files, xml files, and falls back to BasicConfigurator. I don't need this auto configuration logic, since I am just going reset it and configure it myself anyway. I would like the ability to programmatically configure logback and totally avoid this auto configuration. Ideally I would be able to construct a LoggerContext instance, or the root Logger, or something. Then allow slf4j to bind to it without going through the auto config steps. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.qos.ch/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira