Helo Nicolas, Have a look at http://logback.qos.ch/xref-test/ch/qos/logback/core/appender/FileAppenderTes... You would need to write FileAppender<Object> appender = new FileAppender<Object>(); as FileAppender<LoggingEvent> appender = new FileAppender<LoggingEvent>(); You would probably also want to attach the appender you just created to a logger, possibly as LoggerContext lc = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory(); ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger rootLogbackLogger = lc.getLogger(LoggerContext.ROOT); rootLogbackLogger.addAppender(the file appender you just created); Also, the file appender should be attached to logback's logger context. You should modify the test case, from appender.setContext(new ContextBase()); to appender.setContext(lc); Holler if you need further info, nicolas.giraud@bnf.fr wrote:
Thanks for the answer, Hannes.
However a time-based rollover is not what I am looking for. My program executes one job at a time. There are several jobs whose duration varies from a couple of seconds to several hours. I simply want to log the results of a job in a single file, and have the filename contain a timestamp.
I will have to do this programmatically obviously, but I'm having trouble setting up the file appender programmatically.
Regards, Nicolas
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