Benny Bottema

It took me awhile to figure it out, but I figured out how to run the liquibase logging through slf4j/log4j/logback etc, for Liquibase 3.0.8. There’s an easy way and a hard way. The easy way is just the hard way pre-packaged as a jar for you. You’ll understand.

The easy way

Drop in a jar called liquibase-slf4j, by Matt Bertolini, and configure its class logging through slf4j instead. In my case I’m using slf4j-log4j12 on top of that so I configure everything log4j style (make sure you have log4j on your classpath!).

&lt;!-- your own standard logging dependencies --&gt;
&lt;dependency&gt;
	&lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
	&lt;artifactId&gt;slf4j-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
	&lt;version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;
&lt;dependency&gt;
	&lt;groupId&gt;org.slf4j&lt;/groupId&gt;
	&lt;artifactId&gt;slf4j-log4j12&lt;/artifactId&gt;
	&lt;version&gt;1.7.5&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;

&lt;!-- special dependency to fix liquibase&apos;s logging fetish --&gt;
&lt;dependency&gt;
	&lt;groupId&gt;com.mattbertolini&lt;/groupId&gt;
	&lt;artifactId&gt;liquibase-slf4j&lt;/artifactId&gt;
	&lt;version&gt;1.2.1&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;

</dependency>

</dependency>

<groupId>com.mattbertolini</groupId>

<artifactId>liquibase-slf4j</artifactId>

</dependency>

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The easy way