Removing unneeded code.

entitydb-app/src/main/java/ai/philterd/entitydb/EntityDbApplication.java

@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;
 
-// Auto-configuration for MongoDB: http://stackoverflow.com/a/34415014/1428388
-// Auto-configuration for Jackson: http://www.leveluplunch.com/java/tutorials/023-configure-integrate-gson-spring-boot/
-
 /**
  * The EntityDB application. EntityDB uses Spring Boot and
  * builds as a runnable jar.
@@ -97,42 +94,33 @@
  *
  */
 @SpringBootApplication(exclude = { JacksonAutoConfiguration.class, MongoAutoConfiguration.class, MongoDataAutoConfiguration.class })
-@PropertySource(value = {"file:entitydb.properties"}, ignoreResourceNotFound = false)
+@PropertySource(value = {"file:entitydb.properties"})
 @Configuration
 public class EntityDbApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
 
 	private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(EntityDbApplication.class);
 
 	private static final EntityDbProperties properties = ConfigFactory.create(EntityDbProperties.class);
-
-	/**
-	 * The EntityDB main function.
-	 * @param args Command line arguments. (None are required.)
-	 */
+
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
-
-		// Start the REST service.
 		SpringApplication.run(EntityDbApplication.class, args);
-
 	}
 
 	@Override
 	protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
-
 		return application.sources(EntityDbApplication.class);
-
 	}
 
 	@Bean(destroyMethod = "shutdown")
 	public ThreadPoolExecutor getThreadPoolExecutor() {
-		
-		ThreadPoolExecutor executor = (ThreadPoolExecutor) Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
-		
+
+		final ThreadPoolExecutor executor = (ThreadPoolExecutor) Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
+
 		executor.setMaximumPoolSize(16);
-		executor.setCorePoolSize(8);		
-	    
+		executor.setCorePoolSize(8);
+
 		return executor;
-		
+
 	}
 
 	@Bean

entitydb-app/src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -18,6 +18,3 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 #
-
-endpoints.shutdown.enabled=false
-logging.file=@log.file@

entitydb-app/src/main/resources/log4j2.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# The root logger with appender name
+rootLogger = DEBUG, STDOUT
+
+# Assign STDOUT a valid appender & define its layout
+appender.console.name = STDOUT
+appender.console.type = Console
+appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+appender.console.layout.pattern = %msg%n

entitydb-entity-store/entitydb-entity-store-cassandra/pom.xml

@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@
 				</exclusion>
 				<exclusion>
 					<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
-					<artifactId>logback</artifactId>
+					<artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+					<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
 				</exclusion>
 			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>