Alternate loggers in Tigase - Logback

It’s possible to use Logback for logging purposes, which offers certain interesting features (async logging, better control over log rotation, on the fly changing logging configuration)

Requirements: * slf4j-api.jar (provided in -dist-max package) * jul-to-slf4j.jar (provided in -dist-max package) * desired logger libraries (for logback it’s logback-classic.jar and logback-core.jar (provided in -dist-max).

Configuration boils down to adding slf4j bridge handler to the list of build-in Java Logger handlers configuration, which in Tigase translates to adding following line to etc/config.tdsl: 

logging () {
    rootHandlers = [ 'java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler', 'java.util.logging.FileHandler', 'org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler' ]
}

After that etc/logback.xml configuration file will be used.

As stated in [jul-to-slf4j bridge documentation](http://www.slf4j.org/legacy.html#jul-to-slf4j) it’s essential to include LevelChangePropagator to eliminate translation overhead for disabled log statements: 

<configuration debug="true">
  <contextListener class="ch.qos.logback.classic.jul.LevelChangePropagator"/>
  ...
</configuration>

NOTE, that it may be prudent to remove configuration of all old JUL logger by appending following to etc/logback.xml configuration: 

<configuration debug="true">
  <contextListener class="ch.qos.logback.classic.jul.LevelChangePropagator"/>
    <resetJUL>true</resetJUL>
</configuration>
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