diff --git a/project/build/AkkaProject.scala b/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
index 2b6abe15c0..71f39887a0 100644
--- a/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
+++ b/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
     lazy val scalatest      = "org.scalatest"          % "scalatest"           % SCALATEST_VERSION % "test"
     lazy val hadoop_test    = "org.apache.hadoop"      % "hadoop-test"         % "0.20.2"          % "test"
     lazy val hbase_test     = "org.apache.hbase"       % "hbase-test"          % "0.20.6"          % "test"
-    lazy val jett_mortbay   = "org.mortbay.jetty"      % "jetty"               % "6.1.14"          % "test" intransitive()
+    lazy val log4j          = "log4j"                  % "log4j"               % "1.2.15"          % "test"
+    lazy val jetty_mortbay  = "org.mortbay.jetty"      % "jetty"               % "6.1.14"          % "test"
   }
 
   // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -533,14 +534,25 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
   // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   class AkkaHbaseProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends AkkaDefaultProject(info, distPath) {
-    val zookeeper   = Dependencies.zookeeper
-    val hadoop_core = Dependencies.hadoop_core
-    val hbase_core  = Dependencies.hbase_core
- 
-    // testing
-    val hadoop_test = Dependencies.hadoop_test
-    val hbase_test  = Dependencies.hbase_test
-    val jetty       = Dependencies.jett_mortbay
+    override def ivyXML =
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop.zookeeper" name="zookeeper" rev="3.2.2" conf="compile">
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop" name="hadoop-core" rev="0.20.2" conf="compile">
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency org="org.apache.hbase" name="hbase-core" rev="0.20.6" conf="compile">
+        </dependency>
+
+        <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop" name="hadoop-test" rev="0.20.2" conf="test">
+	  <exclude module="slf4j-api"/>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency org="org.apache.hbase" name="hbase-test" rev="0.20.6" conf="test">
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="1.2.15" conf="test">
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency org="org.mortbay.jetty" name="jetty" rev="6.1.14" conf="test">
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
 
     override def testOptions = TestFilter((name: String) => name.endsWith("Test")) :: Nil
   }