SLFJ4 bridge for the Maven logger

Question

I'm writing a Maven 3.x plugin and want to log with SLF4J & Logback.

I found some SLF4J bindings for the Maven Logger:

• http://www.jcabi.com/jcabi-maven-slf4j/index.html
• https://bitbucket.org/peachjean/slf4j-mojo

However, these seem to be SLF4J bindings but I believe what I need is a bridge for the Maven Logger i.e. to bridge/route all Maven log statements to SLF4J and use LogBack binding with logback.xml config.

Answer 1

You can use SLF4J directly from Maven plugin since Maven 3.1:

The standard Maven distribution, from Maven 3.1.0 onward, uses the SLF4J API for logging combined with the SLF4J Simple implementation. Future versions may use a more advanced implementation, but we chose to start simple.

No bridges, bindings, etc. needed.

Source: https://maven.apache.org/maven-logging.html