<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have a test that is trying to use SLF4J 1.8.0-alpha1 and am getting the error below - which implies that SLF4J doesn’t work with Logback. Why isn’t the SLF4J binding backward compatible? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SLF4J: No SLF4J providers were found.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SLF4J: See <a href="http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders" class="">http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders</a> for further details.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SLF4J: Class path contains SLF4J bindings targeting slf4j-api versions prior to 1.8.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SLF4J: Ignoring binding found at [jar:file:/Users/rgoers/.m2/repository/ch/qos/logback/logback-classic/1.2.2/logback-classic-1.2.2.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">SLF4J: See <a href="http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#ignoredBindings" class="">http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#ignoredBindings</a> for an explanation.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Ralph</div></div></div></body></html>