Maven Exclude logback.xml in Jar file

This example shows you how to use Maven to exclude the logback.xml file from the final Jar file.

<project>
  <build>
    <plugins>
	<!-- Make this jar executable -->
	<plugin>
		<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
		<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
		<configuration>
		        <!-- exclude logback.xml -->
			<excludes>
				<exclude>**/logback.xml</exclude>
			</excludes>
			<archive>
			   <manifest>
			     <mainClass>com.mkyong.core.crawler.App</mainClass>
		           </manifest>
			</archive>
		</configuration>
	</plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

You can still pass in your custom logback.xml file via logback.configurationFile system property like this

$ java -jar -Dlogback.configurationFile=/full_path/logback.xml final.jar