This is due to ContextInitializer, which uses the extension (.xml or .groove) to determine whether to parse the file as a groovy script or xml configuration file.

That makes some sense, but I agree this should be (1) documented where logback.configurationFile is documented and (2) an error message should be logged when the file type cannot be determined based on its extension.

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