I was not using m2eclipse, but, I am now and have imported the svn copy using maven and it looks clean.
"Also, if you take a look at a Maven project in Eclipse, it will have a section called Maven Dependencies that you can open and see what jars are actually being pulled in." I found this and slf4j is under the Maven deps which explains my original problem when I was simply importing the code as a project without m2e. Thanks for the help everyone. A few more hurdles are down on the track. -Kris
