WAS 8.5 Trace missing - SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings

It's been quite long since I posted here. Yet I have one new tip for you today:

The problem was that WebSphere 8.5 server did not recognize components to trace after application deployment, and after finally appearing in the traceable components tree did not log all expected output to trace log. As a result we wasn't able to troubleshoot the installation, not to mention that some of the log output was required by defined use cases of the designed solution.

After some search, asking here and there, a colleague of mine (thanks, Agnieszka!) noticed the following entries in the SystemOut.log file of the server when the troublesome application was deployed:

10/2/13 13:42:10:331 CEST] 00000042 SystemErr     R   SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
[10/2/13 13:42:10:331 CEST] 00000042 SystemErr     R   SLF4J: Found binding in [bundleresource://243.fwk-1319487885:1/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
[10/2/13 13:42:10:331 CEST] 00000042 SystemErr     R   SLF4J: Found binding in [wsjar:file:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/installedApps/localhostNode01Cell/xxxxx/lib/slf4j-jdk14-1.6.6.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
[10/2/13 13:42:10:332 CEST] 00000042 SystemErr     R   SLF4J: Found binding in [wsjar:file:/opt/ibm/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/AppSrv01/installedApps/localhostNode01Cell/xxxxx/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
[10/2/13 13:42:10:332 CEST] 00000042 SystemErr     R   SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
[10/2/13 13:42:10:357 CEST] 00000042 SystemErr     R   SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.JDK14LoggerFactory]

and apparently this was causing the server to make wrong class pickup the logging (and hence missing output as that class missed appropriate configuration).

I came up with the idea of removing one of the conflicting classes from ear with console option "Remove file" and selecting whole jar (lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.2.jar). After application restart logging started to work as expected!

Good luck!

Env: WebSphere 8.5.0.2 ND, Linux rhel 6 64bit, application build with Maven (some predefined class includes defined).