diff --git a/jube/pom.xml b/jube/pom.xml
index bdfbe6a..af4d509 100644
--- a/jube/pom.xml
+++ b/jube/pom.xml
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
+      <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
       <version>1.7.5</version>
     </dependency>
 
diff --git a/jube/src/main/java/io/fabric8/jube/main/Main.java b/jube/src/main/java/io/fabric8/jube/main/Main.java
index f83b871..cf3b323 100644
--- a/jube/src/main/java/io/fabric8/jube/main/Main.java
+++ b/jube/src/main/java/io/fabric8/jube/main/Main.java
@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@
  */
 public final class Main {
 
-    private static final String JUBE_VERSION = System.getenv("JUBE_VERSION") != null ? System.getenv("JUBE_VERSION") : "LATEST";
-    private static final String FABRIC8_VERSION = System.getenv("FABRIC8_VERSION") != null ? System.getenv("FABRIC8E_VERSION") : "LATEST";
-
-    private static final String JUL_LOGGING_FORMAT = "%1$tY-%1$tm-%1$td %1$tH:%1$tM:%1$tS %4$s %2$s %5$s%6$s%n";
-
     private static final String LOGO =
             "\t________         ______\n" +
             "\t______(_)____  _____  /_ _____\n" +
@@ -70,7 +65,6 @@ public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
         try {
             System.setProperty("hawtio.authenticationEnabled", "false");
             System.setProperty("org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.class", Slf4jLog.class.getName());
-            System.setProperty("java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format", JUL_LOGGING_FORMAT);
             String port = Systems.getEnvVarOrSystemProperty("HTTP_PORT", "HTTP_PORT", "8585");
             Integer portNumber = Integer.parseInt(port);
 
diff --git a/jube/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/jube/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a3f5d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jube/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#
+#  Copyright 2005-2014 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+#  Red Hat licenses this file to you under the Apache License, version
+#  2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+#  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+#  implied.  See the License for the specific language governing
+#  permissions and limitations under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# The logging properties
+#
+log4j.rootLogger=INFO, file, out
+
+#log4j.logger.io.fabric8=DEBUG
+
+# CONSOLE appender not used by default
+log4j.appender.out=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.out.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.out.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%-15.15t] %-5p %-30.30c{1} - %m%n
+# MDC
+#log4j.appender.out.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%-15.15t] %-5p %-30.30c{1} - %-10.10X{breadcrumbId} - %-10.10X{exchangeId} - %-10.10X{correlationId} - %-10.10X{routeId} - %m%n
+
+# File appender
+log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
+log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.file.file=logs/container.log
+log4j.appender.file.append=true
+log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%-15.15t] %-5p %-30.30c{1} - %m%n
+# MDC
+#log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%-15.15t] %-5p %-30.30c{1} - %-10.10X{breadcrumbId} - %-10.10X{exchangeId} - %-10.10X{correlationId} - %-10.10X{routeId} - %m%n
+
+log4j.throwableRenderer=org.apache.log4j.EnhancedThrowableRenderer
diff --git a/jube/src/main/resources/logging.properties b/jube/src/main/resources/logging.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ab093f..0000000
--- a/jube/src/main/resources/logging.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#
-#  Copyright 2005-2014 Red Hat, Inc.
-#
-#  Red Hat licenses this file to you under the Apache License, version
-#  2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-#  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
-#  implied.  See the License for the specific language governing
-#  permissions and limitations under the License.
-#
-
-.level = INFO
-org.eclipse.jetty.level = INFO
-org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.level = INFO
-org.apache.zookeeper.server.level = WARN
-org.apache.zookeeper.Environment.level = WARN
-org.apache.deltaspike.level = WARN