Logback - set log file name programmatically

Question

I am using logback, and I am trying to set the log file name programmatically within my Java program (similar to Setting Logback Appender path programmatically), and I tried

Answer 1

Here is what you can do to ignore those extra file creation.Below is the config file

c:/logs/${application-name}.log

%d %p %t %c - %m%n





  

Here is the java part,

LoggerContext context = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();
JoranConfigurator jc = new JoranConfigurator();
jc.setContext(context);
context.reset(); // override default configuration
// inject the name of the current application as "application-name"
// property of the LoggerContext
context.putProperty("application-name", NAME_OF_CURRENT_APPLICATION);
jc.doConfigure("/path/to/the/above/configuration/file.xml");

I got this from here http://logback.qos.ch/faq.html#sharedConfiguration