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+#
+#   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+#   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+#   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+#   The ASF 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.
+#
+# log4j configuration used during build and unit tests
+
+log4j.rootLogger=debug,stdout
+log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} [%t] %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n