Do I need to flush events when shutting down using logback?

Question

We are migrating to logback from log4j for several web apps. In the shutdown of our application we currently call:

org.apache.log4j.LogManager.shutdown();

Which is supposed to flush all async logging and close all external resources (files, sockets).

Is there something similar in logback or does it somehow flush automatically on shutdown?

Mike

Answer 1

I'm not aware of an overall manager shutdown like log4j's but I close all my individual context loggers when their context is destroyed using a ServletContextListener like so:

ContextSelector selector = StaticLoggerBinder.getSingleton().getContextSelector();
LoggerContext context = selector.detachLoggerContext(contextName);
if (context != null) {
    Logger logger = context.getLogger(Logger.ROOT_LOGGER_NAME);
    context.reset();
} else {
    System.err.printf("No context named %s was found", contextName);
}

Also, LoggerContext.stop() is svailable and does some of the same functions internally but I don't use it, so I can't comment on whether its better than reset or not.