diff --git a/exercises/pom.xml b/exercises/pom.xml
index 81eca469..5fe340da 100644
--- a/exercises/pom.xml
+++ b/exercises/pom.xml
@@ -43,13 +43,24 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.13.2.1</version>
+            <version>2.16.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
+            <version>2.0.12</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.schananas</groupId>
             <artifactId>hint</artifactId>
             <version>1.0</version>
         </dependency>
+        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.projectlombok/lombok -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
+            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
+            <version>1.18.30</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <build>
         <plugins>
diff --git a/exercises/src/main/resources/Log4j2.xml b/exercises/src/main/resources/Log4j2.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6d07fee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exercises/src/main/resources/Log4j2.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<Configuration status="INFO">
+  <Appenders>
+    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
+      <PatternLayout pattern="%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%t] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n"/>
+    </Console>
+  </Appenders>
+  <Loggers>
+    <Root level="debug">
+      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
+    </Root>
+  </Loggers>
+</Configuration>
diff --git a/exercises/src/test/java/c1_Introduction.java b/exercises/src/test/java/c1_Introduction.java
index 92ac5493..e525167f 100644
--- a/exercises/src/test/java/c1_Introduction.java
+++ b/exercises/src/test/java/c1_Introduction.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
  *
  * @author Stefan Dragisic
  */
+@Slf4j
 public class c1_Introduction extends IntroductionBase {
 
     /**