Take the 2-minute tour ×  I've in my logback.xml configuration
file this appender:  <appender name="FILE"     <encoder
class="ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder">
<Pattern>%d{dd MMM yyyy;HH:mm:ss} %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n
<rollingPolicy
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy">
so that I specify path to file in which to print logs in a
relative way through classpath, but it doesn't work, no file
addressbookLog.log is created and written. It only works with
absolute paths like
/home/andrea/.../resources/addressbookLog.log Have you any ideas
on how to make it work with classpath?  share|improve this
question add comment  2 Answers  The Chapter 3: Logback
configuration: Variable substitution told us the various ways to
refer to the variable defined outside, e.g. system properties
and classpath.  The significant configuration is creating a
separate file that will contain all the variables. We can make a
reference to a resource on the class path instead of a fi