@John Aylward

could you expand on what you mean by "When using slf4j you don't want a compile dependency to logback in your code!

SLF4J has no `stop` method and therefore the code above has a compile dependency to logback or you use reflection (making it not better).

@Ceki Gulcu why logback cannot stop the context automatically? Other logging framework can do this (https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.0/faq.html#shutdown with the log4j-web module)...