-Dlogback.configurationFile=logback.xml ignored when running Spring-Boot

Question

We have a spring-boot 1.0.RC1 application, with logback configured for logging and a logback.xml file in src/test/resources. When we run spring-boot from maven, the logback

Answer 1

Not quite right. logback.configurationFile is not managed by Spring (i.e. env var replacement or so), but logback will still pick it up. At least that's my understanding of the docs and my practical experience.