Fix for logback version upgrade

[chandrashekar-s]

Description of what I changed

This fixes the build failure issues for the PRs #957 and #895

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[chandrashekar-s]

@bashir2 Thanks for the review, I had a bit deeper look at this and have provided my comments. Please check the latest commit as well.

[chandrashekar-s]

The build is failing due to some regression introduced by the latest HAPI release. This is fixed by the PR #970. We can rebuild this once the fix is merged.