diff --git pdk/scripts/build-plugin.xml pdk/scripts/build-plugin.xml
index 05730b7..8e9adb9 100644
--- pdk/scripts/build-plugin.xml
+++ pdk/scripts/build-plugin.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
+
@@ -133,6 +134,7 @@
+
diff --git pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80433fd
--- /dev/null
+++ pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# 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.
+
+# This file is to configure hadoop log4j
+# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
+hive.root.logger=DEBUG,DRFA
+hive.log.dir=/tmp/
+hive.log.file=hive.log
+
+# Define the root logger to the system property "hadoop.root.logger".
+log4j.rootLogger=${hive.root.logger}, EventCounter
+
+# Logging Threshold
+log4j.threshhold=WARN
+
+# Null Appender
+log4j.appender.NullAppender=org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender
+
+#
+# Daily Rolling File Appender
+#
+
+log4j.appender.DRFA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.DRFA.File=${hive.log.dir}/${hive.log.file}
+
+# Rollver at midnight
+log4j.appender.DRFA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
+
+# 30-day backup
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex=30
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+
+# Pattern format: Date LogLevel LoggerName LogMessage
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
+# Debugging Pattern format
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n
+
+
+#
+# console
+# Add "console" to rootlogger above if you want to use this
+#
+
+log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}: %m%n
+
+#custom logging levels
+#log4j.logger.xxx=DEBUG
+
+#
+# Event Counter Appender
+# Sends counts of logging messages at different severity levels to Hadoop Metrics.
+#
+log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter
+
+
+log4j.category.DataNucleus=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.Datastore=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.Datastore.Schema=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Datastore=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Plugin=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.MetaData=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Query=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.General=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Enhancer=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration=ERROR,DRFA
+
diff --git ql/ivy.xml ql/ivy.xml
index 40f370b..4b6ca47 100644
--- ql/ivy.xml
+++ ql/ivy.xml
@@ -75,12 +75,18 @@
+ conf="compile->default" transitive="false">
+
+
+
+
+