ongoing work

logback-classic/src/main/java/ch/qos/logback/classic/Logger.java

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
  */
 package ch.qos.logback.classic;
 
+import static org.slf4j.event.Level.TRACE;
+
 import java.io.ObjectStreamException;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -22,9 +24,13 @@
 
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.slf4j.Marker;
+import org.slf4j.spi.DefaultLoggingEventBuilder;
 import org.slf4j.spi.LocationAwareLogger;
+import org.slf4j.spi.LoggingEventBuilder;
+import org.slf4j.spi.NOPLoggingEventBuilder;
 
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.LogbackLoggingEventBuilder;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.LoggingEvent;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.util.LoggerNameUtil;
 import ch.qos.logback.core.Appender;
@@ -461,6 +467,15 @@ public void trace(Marker marker, String msg, Throwable t) {
         filterAndLog_0_Or3Plus(FQCN, marker, Level.TRACE, msg, null, t);
     }
 
+
+
+    @Override
+    public LoggingEventBuilder makeLoggingEventBuilder(org.slf4j.event.Level level) {
+    	return new LogbackLoggingEventBuilder(this, level);
+    }
+
+
+
     public boolean isDebugEnabled() {
         return isDebugEnabled(null);
     }

pom.xml

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
     <!-- slf4j.version property is used below, in
          logback-classic/pom.xml and in setClasspath.cmd 
     -->    
-    <slf4j.version>1.8.0-beta1</slf4j.version>
+    <slf4j.version>2.0.0-alpha1-SNAPSHOT</slf4j.version>
     <cal10n.version>0.8.1</cal10n.version>
     <consolePlugin.version>1.1.0</consolePlugin.version>
     <!--<tomcat.version>7.0.59</tomcat.version>-->