Hello,

I'm having problems with logback, i'm not sure if this is a bug, but certainly is very very weird behavior.

I just follow a tutorial (logback.qos.ch/manual/configuration.html#joranDirectly) to load the configuration xml from another place, when it load the xml this print a lot of errors:

_14:51:42,240 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Could NOT find resource [logback.groovy]
14:51:42,240 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Could NOT find resource [logback-test.xml]
14:51:42,240 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext[default] - Found resource [logback.xml] at file:/Test/target/classes/logback.xml
14:51:42,325 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.ConfigurationAction - debug attribute not set
14:51:42,329 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender]
14:51:42,337 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [STDOUT]
14:51:42,358 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA - Assuming default type [ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder] for [encoder] property
14:51:42,414 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.RootLoggerAction - Setting level of ROOT logger to WARN
14:51:42,414 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderRefAction - Attaching appender named [STDOUT] to Logger[ROOT]
14:51:42,414 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.ConfigurationAction - End of configuration.
14:51:42,415 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.JoranConfigurator@e74eb02 - Registering current configuration as safe fallback point
14:51:42,429 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender]
14:51:42,429 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [STDOUT]
14:51:42,429 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA - Assuming default type [ch.qos.logback.access.PatternLayoutEncoder] for [encoder] property
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - There is no conversion class registered for conversion word [d]
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - [d] is not a valid conversion word
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - There is no conversion class registered for conversion word [thread]
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - [thread] is not a valid conversion word
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - There is no conversion class registered for conversion word [level]
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - [level] is not a valid conversion word
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - There is no conversion class registered for conversion word [logger]
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - [logger] is not a valid conversion word
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - There is no conversion class registered for conversion word [msg]
14:51:42,443 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.pattern.parser.Compiler@6c9bc6a9 - [msg] is not a valid conversion word
14:51:42,450 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter@9:22 - no applicable action for [root], current ElementPath is [[configuration][root]]
14:51:42,451 |-ERROR in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.Interpreter@10:32 - no applicable action for [appender-ref], current ElementPath is [[configuration][root][appender-ref]]
14:51:42,451 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.access.joran.action.ConfigurationAction - End of configuration.
14:51:42,451 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.access.joran.JoranConfigurator@32a0a9ac - Registering current configuration as safe fallback point
14:51:42,453 |-WARN in Logger[Main] - No appenders present in context [default] for logger [Main]._

To make sure this is a bug and not a bad configuration, i have created a maven project with only one java file

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import ch.qos.logback.access.joran.JoranConfigurator;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext;
import ch.qos.logback.core.joran.spi.JoranException;

public class Main {
	static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Main.class);

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		LoggerContext context = (LoggerContext) LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();

		try {
			JoranConfigurator configurator = new JoranConfigurator();
			configurator.setContext(context);
			context.reset();
			configurator.doConfigure(args[0]);
		} catch (JoranException je) {
			// StatusPrinter will handle this
		}

		logger.error("ASDF");
		logger.info("ASDF");
		logger.debug("ASDF");
		logger.warn("ASDF");
		logger.trace("ASDF");
	}
}

This is the logback.xml that i'm trying to load

<configuration debug="true">
	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
		<encoder>
			<pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n
			</pattern>
		</encoder>
	</appender>

	<root level="debug">
		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
	</root>
</configuration>

and this is the pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>Test</groupId>
	<artifactId>Test</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1</version>
	<name>Test</name>
	<description>	</description>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>junit</groupId>
			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
			<version>3.8.1</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
			<artifactId>logback-access</artifactId>
			<version>1.1.3</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
			<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
			<version>1.1.3</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
			<artifactId>logback-examples</artifactId>
			<version>1.1.3</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
			<version>1.7.12</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
			<artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
			<version>1.1.3</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
	</properties>
</project>

if I comment the lines where it loads the external logback.xml its works without problems loading the logback under /src/main/resource