Hi! Play Framework maintainer here.
Copying the method into the Play framework should be a relatively easy exercise.
I was looking into this and I think there is a nicer approach: DefaultJoranConfigurator contains an identical configureByResource method: https://github.com/qos-ch/logback/blob/v_1.4.11/logback-classic/src/main/jav... Does something speak against using that method instead of copy/pasting and introducing duplicated code? I came up with a pull request to "fix" commit 4b06e062488e4cb87f22be6ae96e4d7d6350ed6b and remove the pasted method: https://github.com/qos-ch/logback/pull/697 Let me know what you think. BTW: Please do not remove methods and/or classes anymore in a patch release (specially if you deprecated that method only a couple of patch release before...) Thanks! Best, Matthias