diff --git a/src/eu.aniketos.dasca.crosslanguage/logback.xml b/src/eu.aniketos.dasca.crosslanguage/logback.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+  <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+    <!-- encoders are  by default assigned the type
+         ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder -->
+    <encoder>
+      <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level - %msg \(%logger{0}.java:%L\)%n</pattern>
+    </encoder>
+  </appender>
+  <root level="info">
+    <appender-ref ref="STDOUT"/>
+  </root>
+</configuration>
diff --git a/src/eu.aniketos.dasca.crosslanguage/logging.properties b/src/eu.aniketos.dasca.crosslanguage/logging.properties
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+############################################################
+#  	Default Logging Configuration File
+#
+# You can use a different file by specifying a filename
+# with the java.util.logging.config.file system property.
+# For example java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=myfile
+############################################################
+
+############################################################
+#  	Global properties
+############################################################
+
+# "handlers" specifies a comma separated list of log Handler
+# classes.  These handlers will be installed during VM startup.
+# Note that these classes must be on the system classpath.
+# By default we only configure a ConsoleHandler, which will only
+# show messages at the INFO and above levels.
+handlers= java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+
+# To also add the FileHandler, use the following line instead.
+#handlers= java.util.logging.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
+
+# Default global logging level.
+# This specifies which kinds of events are logged across
+# all loggers.  For any given facility this global level
+# can be overriden by a facility specific level
+# Note that the ConsoleHandler also has a separate level
+# setting to limit messages printed to the console.
+.level= SEVERE
+
+############################################################
+# Handler specific properties.
+# Describes specific configuration info for Handlers.
+############################################################
+
+# default file output is in user's home directory.
+java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern = %h/java%u.log
+java.util.logging.FileHandler.limit = 50000
+java.util.logging.FileHandler.count = 1
+java.util.logging.FileHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.XMLFormatter
+
+# Limit the message that are printed on the console to INFO and above.
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = SEVERE
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter
+
+# Example to customize the SimpleFormatter output format
+# to print one-line log message like this:
+#     <level>: <log message> [<date/time>]
+#
+# java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format=%4$s: %5$s [%1$tc]%n
+
+############################################################
+# Facility specific properties.
+# Provides extra control for each logger.
+############################################################
+
+# For example, set the com.xyz.foo logger to only log SEVERE
+# messages:
+com.xyz.foo.level = SEVERE