ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextInitializer is not extensible!!!

ContextInitializer.java

  public void configureByResource(URL url) throws JoranException {
    if (url == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("URL argument cannot be null");
    }
    if (url.toString().endsWith("groovy")) {
      if (EnvUtil.isGroovyAvailable()) {
        // avoid directly referring to GafferConfigurator so as to avoid
        // loading  groovy.lang.GroovyObject . See also http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCLASSIC-214
        GafferUtil.runGafferConfiguratorOn(loggerContext, this, url);
      } else {
        StatusManager sm = loggerContext.getStatusManager();
        sm.add(new ErrorStatus("Groovy classes are not available on the class path. ABORTING INITIALIZATION.",
                loggerContext));
      }
    }
    if (url.toString().endsWith("xml")) {
      JoranConfigurator configurator = new JoranConfigurator();
      configurator.setContext(loggerContext);
      configurator.doConfigure(url);
    }
  }

LogManager.java

  static {
    // By default we use a DefaultRepositorySelector which always returns 'h'.
    Hierarchy h = new Hierarchy(new RootLogger((Level) Level.DEBUG));
    repositorySelector = new DefaultRepositorySelector(h);

    /** Search for the properties file log4j.properties in the CLASSPATH.  */
    String override =OptionConverter.getSystemProperty(DEFAULT_INIT_OVERRIDE_KEY,
						       null);

    // if there is no default init override, then get the resource
    // specified by the user or the default config file.
    if(override == null || "false".equalsIgnoreCase(override)) {

      String configurationOptionStr = OptionConverter.getSystemProperty(
							  DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_KEY, 
							  null);

      String configuratorClassName = OptionConverter.getSystemProperty(
                                                   CONFIGURATOR_CLASS_KEY, 
						   null);

      URL url = null;

      // if the user has not specified the log4j.configuration
      // property, we search first for the file "log4j.xml" and then
      // "log4j.properties"
      if(configurationOptionStr == null) {	
	url = Loader.getResource(DEFAULT_XML_CONFIGURATION_FILE);
	if(url == null) {
	  url = Loader.getResource(DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILE);
	}
      } else {
	try {
	  url = new URL(configurationOptionStr);
	} catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
	  // so, resource is not a URL:
	  // attempt to get the resource from the class path
	  url = Loader.getResource(configurationOptionStr); 
	}	
      }
      
      // If we have a non-null url, then delegate the rest of the
      // configuration to the OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure
      // method.
      if(url != null) {
	    LogLog.debug("Using URL ["+url+"] for automatic log4j configuration.");
        try {
            OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(url, configuratorClassName,
					   LogManager.getLoggerRepository());
        } catch (NoClassDefFoundError e) {
            LogLog.warn("Error during default initialization", e);
        }
      } else {
	    LogLog.debug("Could not find resource: ["+configurationOptionStr+"].");
      }
    } else {
        LogLog.debug("Default initialization of overridden by " + 
            DEFAULT_INIT_OVERRIDE_KEY + "property."); 
    }  
  } 

OptionConverter.java

  static
  public
  void selectAndConfigure(URL url, String clazz, LoggerRepository hierarchy) {
   Configurator configurator = null;
   String filename = url.getFile();

   if(clazz == null && filename != null && filename.endsWith(".xml")) {
     clazz = "org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator";
   }

   if(clazz != null) {
     LogLog.debug("Preferred configurator class: " + clazz);
     configurator = (Configurator) instantiateByClassName(clazz,
							  Configurator.class,
							  null);
     if(configurator == null) {
   	  LogLog.error("Could not instantiate configurator ["+clazz+"].");
   	  return;
     }
   } else {
     configurator = new PropertyConfigurator();
   }

   configurator.doConfigure(url, hierarchy);
  }