TusenFryd Amusement Park So you have your executable web application in JAR with bundled Tomcat (make sure to read that one first). However there are these annoying Tomcat logs at the beginning, independent from our application logs and not customizable: Nov 24, 2012 11:44:02 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] Nov 24, 2012 11:44:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal INFO: Starting service Tomcat Nov 24, 2012 11:44:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.30 Nov 24, 2012 11:44:05 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"] I would really like to quite them down, or even better save them somewhere since they sometimes reveal important failures. But I definitely don't want to have a separate java.util.logging configuration. Did you wonder after reading the pr