[logback-user] maven and logback

[Rusty Wright]

Ok, thanks.  I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong.  I've got it 
down two.  One of them I'm not even listing as a dependency.


Ceki Gulcu wrote:
> Hello Rusty,
>
> I don't think the problems you are facing have to do with version 99. Try using 
> the regular commons-logging to get your code to build. You do not need to 
> reference commons-logging directly because it will be pulled in by maven's 
> transitive dependency rules. See below for an explanation.
>
> For example, depending on logback-classic version 0.9.9 will transitively 
> pull-in slf4j-api version 1.5.2. Similarly, since spring 2.5.5 depends on 
> commons-logging v1.1.1, declaring spring 2.5.5 will pull-in commons-logging 
> v1.1.1. I beleive that log4j is declared as an optional dependency in spring 
> v2.5.5 so you probably do not need to declare log4j nor log4j-over-slf4j as 
> dependencies. However, I might be wrong on that last item.
>
> As for modules in the org.slf4j group, they are a;ways released at the same 
> time. So if you declare a dependency for log4j-over-slf4j version X, make sure 
> that if you declare slf4j-api as dependency, its version number is identical to X.
>
> HTH,
>
> ps: One last thing, avoid cross posting to multiple lists. :-)
>
> Rusty Wright wrote:
>   
>> Maven newbie here trying to convert my Eclipse project to Maven.
>>
>> I tried using the "version 99" of Commons Logging as documented here (so 
>> that I can use logback and slf4j instead):
>>
>>  http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/07/no-more-commons-logging.html
>>
>> which was just recently referenced on the logback mailing list.
>>
>> My pom.xml file starts out as below.  Below that are the errors.
>>
>> So I don't understand why it's not working.  And additionally in the 
>> errors part the initial "Downloading:" lines seem odd to me since they 
>> have the zapto url prepended to them.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>>