Spring-Boot Deployment -- JBAS011555: Failed to configure logging using 'logging.properties' configuration file

AKA: How-To Configure Logging for Spring-Boot + JBOSS 7.1 Server

Trying to deploy a spring-boot application against an older JBoss 7.1 server instance (customer requirement.)

I originally was working with a project that stands up fine under Tomcat but when I deploy it to JBoss, it issues the logging error you see below. I have found the usual suspects via Google for both the jboss-structure.xml changes and the build.gradle dependencies. I remain with the indicated error though.

I am using: Spring-Boot 1.3.5 and for the example of this question, I am taking a fresh build, directly from http://start.spring.io and deploying it without any modifications.

build.gradle:

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.3.5.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}") 
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot' 
apply plugin: 'war'


war {
    baseName = 'demo'
    version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
}
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

configurations {
    providedRuntime
}

dependencies {
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-rest')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-mustache')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-ws')
    runtime('com.h2database:h2')
    providedRuntime('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat')
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') 
}


eclipse {
    classpath {
         containers.remove('org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER')
         containers 'org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8'
    }
}

server.log

2016-06-02 13:10:37,946 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-18)  | DeploymentServiceListener constructor for deployment demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war]
2016-06-02 13:10:37,947 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-18)  | JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war"
2016-06-02 13:10:39,069 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-14)  | MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war".POST_MODULE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war"
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:123) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final.jar:7.1.2.Final]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_71]
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_71]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [rt.jar:1.7.0_71]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS011555: Failed to configure logging using 'logging.properties' configuration file.
    at org.jboss.as.logging.LoggingConfigurationProcessor.deploy(LoggingConfigurationProcessor.java:125)
    at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:116) [jboss-as-server-7.1.2.Final.jar:7.1.2.Final]
    ... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: className is null
    at org.jboss.logmanager.config.AbstractPropertyConfiguration.<init>(AbstractPropertyConfiguration.java:52) [jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar:1.3.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.logmanager.config.HandlerConfigurationImpl.<init>(HandlerConfigurationImpl.java:54) [jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar:1.3.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.logmanager.config.LogContextConfigurationImpl.addHandlerConfiguration(LogContextConfigurationImpl.java:138) [jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar:1.3.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.logmanager.PropertyConfigurator.configureHandler(PropertyConfigurator.java:477) [jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar:1.3.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.logmanager.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:379) [jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar:1.3.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.logmanager.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:92) [jboss-logmanager-1.3.1.Final.jar:1.3.1.Final]
    at org.jboss.as.logging.LoggingConfigurationProcessor.deploy(LoggingConfigurationProcessor.java:122)
    ... 6 more

2016-06-02 13:10:39,071 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (host-controller-connection-threads - 9)  | JBAS015870: Deploy of deployment "demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war" was rolled back with failure message {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit."demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war".POST_MODULE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war"
    Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS011555: Failed to configure logging using 'logging.properties' configuration file.
    Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: className is null"}}
2016-06-02 13:10:39,095 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-2)  | JBAS015877: Stopped deployment demo-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war in 23ms