diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2d0116531..3ae2e1f82 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 		<unix-socket-factory.version>2015-01-27T15-02-14</unix-socket-factory.version>
 
 		<!--test dependencies -->
-		<version.logback>1.0.1</version.logback>
+		<version.logback>1.1.0</version.logback>
 		<version.testng>5.12.1</version.testng>
 		<hamcrest.library.version>1.3</hamcrest.library.version>
 		<hamcrest.jpa-matchers>1.6</hamcrest.jpa-matchers>
@@ -143,11 +143,11 @@
 			<version>${slf4j-api.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 
-		<dependency>
-			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-			<artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
-			<version>${slf4j-api.version}</version>
-		</dependency>
+<!-- 		<dependency> -->
+<!-- 			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> -->
+<!-- 			<artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId> -->
+<!-- 			<version>${slf4j-api.version}</version> -->
+<!-- 		</dependency> -->
 
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java
index 744f0c63c..78cd8427c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
 import javax.ws.rs.client.Client;
@@ -65,7 +67,7 @@
 
 public class DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl implements DockerCmdExecFactory {
 
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.class.getName());
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.class.getName());
     private Client client;
     private WebTarget baseResource;
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/LoggingFilter.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/LoggingFilter.java
index 9679f230a..eda72b835 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/LoggingFilter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/LoggingFilter.java
@@ -53,7 +53,9 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
 import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext;
@@ -68,7 +70,6 @@
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.WriterInterceptor;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.WriterInterceptorContext;
-
 import javax.annotation.Priority;
 
 
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@
 public class LoggingFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter, ClientRequestFilter, ContainerResponseFilter,
         ClientResponseFilter, WriterInterceptor {
 
-    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(LoggingFilter.class.getName());
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggingFilter.class.getName());
     private static final String NOTIFICATION_PREFIX = "* ";
     private static final String REQUEST_PREFIX = "> ";
     private static final String RESPONSE_PREFIX = "< ";
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ public LoggingFilter(final Logger logger, final int maxEntitySize) {
 
     private void log(final StringBuilder b) {
         if (logger != null) {
-            logger.info(b.toString());
+            logger.debug(b.toString());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/SelectiveLoggingFilter.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/SelectiveLoggingFilter.java
index 9c577fd54..6771ebe88 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/SelectiveLoggingFilter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/util/SelectiveLoggingFilter.java
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
 import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
 
 /**
  * A version of the logging filter that will avoid trying to log entities which can cause
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/client/AbstractDockerClientTest.java b/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/client/AbstractDockerClientTest.java
index 71bfb9304..f5519283c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/client/AbstractDockerClientTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/client/AbstractDockerClientTest.java
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractDockerClientTest extends Assert {
 	protected TestDockerCmdExecFactory dockerCmdExecFactory = new TestDockerCmdExecFactory(DockerClientBuilder.getDefaultDockerCmdExecFactory());
 
 	public void beforeTest()  {
+		
+		
 		LOG.info("======================= BEFORETEST =======================");
 		LOG.info("Connecting to Docker server");
 		dockerClient = DockerClientBuilder.getInstance(config())
diff --git a/src/test/resources/logback.xml b/src/test/resources/logback.xml
index 318af2861..bdb0ee75a 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/logback.xml
+++ b/src/test/resources/logback.xml
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
         </encoder>
     </appender>
 
-    <logger name="com.github.dockerjava.client" level="TRACE"/>
-    <logger name="com.github.dockerjava.client.test" level="DEBUG"/>
+    <logger name="com.github.dockerjava" level="INFO"/>
+    <logger name="com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs" level="DEBUG"/>
 
-    <root level="info">
+    <root level="INFO">
         <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
     </root>