Impose some personal style preferences and a few simplifications. Use Java 6 for now for consistency with main project.
Proposed log changes -- redirect everything to JDK Logger via SLF4J like Oryx
Merge pull request #1 from cloudera/LogChanges

Proposed log changes -- redirect everything to JDK Logger via SLF4J like Oryx
Fixed spacing in pom and added .gitignore
Fixed spacing in pom and added .gitignore