## The logback manual

The complete logback manual documents the latest version of logback framework. In over 140 pages and dozens of concrete examples, it covers both basic and advanced logback features:

- the overall logback architecture

- discussion of best logback practices and anti-patterns

- logback configuration scripts in XML format

- appenders

- layouts

- filter chains

- logback diagnostic contexts

- logback default initialization

- logback in Servlet Containers

If you wish to print chapters in this document, we recommend that you do so using Firefox 2, with Adapt to page size enabled, or Opera.

To run the examples provided in this book, you might have to run the provided script to setup your classpath. The scripts can be found in the logback distributions, inside the logback-examples directory.

The logback manual describes the logback API in considerable detail, including its features and design rationale. Authored by Ceki Gülcü and Sébastien Pennec, the main contributors to the logback project, the logback manual is intended for developers already familiar with the Java language but new to logback, as much as for experienced logback users. With the aid of introductory material and many examples, new users should quickly come up to speed.

Without further ado, here are the contents of the manual:

- Chapter 1: Introduction to logback

- Chapter 2: Architecture

- Chapter 3: Logback configuration with Joran

- Chapter 4: Appenders

- Chapter 5: Layouts

- Chapter 6: Filter chains

- Chapter 7: Diagnostic Context

- Chapter 8: Context Selector