diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index dc4add25db..92f18f8c63 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -354,7 +354,9 @@
           <dependency groupId="com.googlecode.json-simple" artifactId="json-simple" version="1.1"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.github.stephenc.high-scale-lib" artifactId="high-scale-lib" version="1.1.2"/>
           <dependency groupId="com.github.stephenc" artifactId="jamm" version="0.2.5"/>
-	   <dependency groupId="com.thinkaurelius.thrift" artifactId="thrift-server" version="0.3.0"/>
+	      <dependency groupId="com.thinkaurelius.thrift" artifactId="thrift-server" version="0.3.0">
+	      	<exclusion groupId="org.slf4j" artifactId="slf4j-log4j12"/>
+          </dependency>
           <dependency groupId="org.yaml" artifactId="snakeyaml" version="1.6"/>
           <dependency groupId="org.apache.thrift" artifactId="libthrift" version="0.9.0"/>