diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/BasicSlf4jWebappTest.java b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/BasicSlf4jWebappTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d1d168f4a71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/BasicSlf4jWebappTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.openejb.arquillian.tests.slf4j;
+
+import org.apache.ziplock.WebModule;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.Deployment;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.test.api.ArquillianResource;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.ClassLoaderAsset;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.WebArchive;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
+public class BasicSlf4jWebappTest {
+    @ArquillianResource(SimpleServlet.class)
+    private URL url;
+
+    @Deployment(testable = false)
+    public static WebArchive getArchive() {
+        final WebArchive archive = new WebModule(BasicSlf4jWebappTest.class.getSimpleName()).getArchive();
+        archive.addClass(SimpleServlet.class);
+        archive.add(new ClassLoaderAsset("org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/logback.xml"), "WEB-INF/logback.xml");
+        System.out.println(archive.toString(true));
+        return archive;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void validate() throws Exception {
+        final String launchProfile = System.getProperty("arquillian.launch");
+        if ("tomee-embedded".equals(launchProfile)) {
+            System.out.println("Skipping this test in TomEE embedded");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        final InputStream is = new URL(url.toExternalForm() + "logtest").openStream();
+        final ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+        int bytesRead;
+        byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
+        while ((bytesRead = is.read(buffer)) > -1) {
+            os.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
+        }
+
+        is.close();
+        os.close();
+
+        final String output = new String(os.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
+        assertNotNull("Response shouldn't be null", output);
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "It works!" + "\n" + output, output.contains("It works!"));
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "Logger Factory: org.slf4j.jul.JDK14LoggerFactory" + "\n" + output, output.contains("Logger Factory: org.slf4j.jul.JDK14LoggerFactory"));
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "slf4j-jdk14-2.0.9.jar" + "\n" + output, output.contains("slf4j-jdk14-2.0.9.jar"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/SimpleServlet.java b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/SimpleServlet.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..64f789a356d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/SimpleServlet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.openejb.arquillian.tests.slf4j;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import org.slf4j.ILoggerFactory;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+@WebServlet(urlPatterns = "/logtest")
+public class SimpleServlet extends HttpServlet {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SimpleServlet.class);
+
+    @Override
+    protected void doGet(final HttpServletRequest req, final HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
+        try {
+            final ILoggerFactory iLoggerFactory = LoggerFactory.getILoggerFactory();
+            final String loggerFactoryName = iLoggerFactory.getClass().getName();
+
+            LOGGER.info("Simple servlet called");
+            LOGGER.info("Logger Factory: " + loggerFactoryName);
+
+            final PrintWriter writer = resp.getWriter();
+            writer.println("It works!\n" +
+                    "Logger Factory: " + loggerFactoryName + "\n" +
+                    "Protection Domain: " + iLoggerFactory.getClass().getProtectionDomain().toString());
+            writer.flush();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/Slf4j1xLogbackWebappTest.java b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/Slf4j1xLogbackWebappTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7997e01d862
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/Slf4j1xLogbackWebappTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.openejb.arquillian.tests.slf4j;
+
+import org.apache.ziplock.WebModule;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.Deployment;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.test.api.ArquillianResource;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.ClassLoaderAsset;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.WebArchive;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.resolver.api.ResolutionException;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.resolver.api.maven.Maven;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
+public class Slf4j1xLogbackWebappTest {
+    @ArquillianResource(SimpleServlet.class)
+    private URL url;
+
+    @Deployment(testable = false)
+    public static WebArchive getArchive() {
+        File[] dependencies;
+        try { // try offline first since it is generally faster
+            dependencies = Maven.configureResolver()
+                    .workOffline()
+                    .loadPomFromFile("src/test/resources/slf4j1x-pom.xml")
+                    .importCompileAndRuntimeDependencies().resolve().withTransitivity()
+                    .asFile();
+        } catch (ResolutionException re) { // try on central
+            dependencies = Maven.resolver()
+                    .loadPomFromFile("src/test/resources/slf4j1x-pom.xml")
+                    .importCompileAndRuntimeDependencies().resolve().withTransitivity()
+                    .asFile();
+        }
+
+
+        final WebArchive archive = new WebModule(BasicSlf4jWebappTest.class.getSimpleName()).getArchive();
+        archive.addClass(SimpleServlet.class);
+        archive.add(new ClassLoaderAsset("org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/logback.xml"), "WEB-INF/logback.xml");
+        archive.addAsLibraries(dependencies);
+        System.out.println(archive.toString(true));
+        return archive;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void validate() throws Exception {
+        final String launchProfile = System.getProperty("arquillian.launch");
+        if ("tomee-embedded".equals(launchProfile)) {
+            System.out.println("Skipping this test in TomEE embedded");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        final InputStream is = new URL(url.toExternalForm() + "logtest").openStream();
+        final ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+        int bytesRead;
+        byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
+        while ((bytesRead = is.read(buffer)) > -1) {
+            os.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
+        }
+
+        is.close();
+        os.close();
+
+        final String output = new String(os.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
+        assertNotNull("Response shouldn't be null", output);
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "It works!" + "\n" + output, output.contains("It works!"));
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "Logger Factory: ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext" + "\n" + output, output.contains("Logger Factory: ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext"));
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "logback-classic-1.2.11.jar" + "\n" + output, output.contains("logback-classic-1.2.11.jar"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/Slf4j2xLogbackWebappTest.java b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/Slf4j2xLogbackWebappTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dd3ea40ff2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/Slf4j2xLogbackWebappTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.openejb.arquillian.tests.slf4j;
+
+import org.apache.ziplock.WebModule;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.api.Deployment;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.test.api.ArquillianResource;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.asset.ClassLoaderAsset;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.spec.WebArchive;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.resolver.api.ResolutionException;
+import org.jboss.shrinkwrap.resolver.api.maven.Maven;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
+public class Slf4j2xLogbackWebappTest {
+    @ArquillianResource(SimpleServlet.class)
+    private URL url;
+
+    @Deployment(testable = false)
+    public static WebArchive getArchive() {
+        File[] dependencies;
+        try { // try offline first since it is generally faster
+            dependencies = Maven.configureResolver()
+                    .workOffline()
+                    .loadPomFromFile("src/test/resources/slf4j2x-pom.xml")
+                    .importCompileAndRuntimeDependencies().resolve().withTransitivity()
+                    .asFile();
+        } catch (ResolutionException re) { // try on central
+            dependencies = Maven.resolver()
+                    .loadPomFromFile("src/test/resources/slf4j2x-pom.xml")
+                    .importCompileAndRuntimeDependencies().resolve().withTransitivity()
+                    .asFile();
+        }
+
+
+        final WebArchive archive = new WebModule(BasicSlf4jWebappTest.class.getSimpleName()).getArchive();
+        archive.addClass(SimpleServlet.class);
+        archive.add(new ClassLoaderAsset("org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/logback.xml"), "WEB-INF/logback.xml");
+        archive.addAsLibraries(dependencies);
+        System.out.println(archive.toString(true));
+        return archive;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void validate() throws Exception {
+        final String launchProfile = System.getProperty("arquillian.launch");
+        if ("tomee-embedded".equals(launchProfile)) {
+            System.out.println("Skipping this test in TomEE embedded");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        final InputStream is = new URL(url.toExternalForm() + "logtest").openStream();
+        final ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+        int bytesRead;
+        byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
+        while ((bytesRead = is.read(buffer)) > -1) {
+            os.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
+        }
+
+        is.close();
+        os.close();
+
+        final String output = new String(os.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
+        assertNotNull("Response shouldn't be null", output);
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "It works!" + "\n" + output, output.contains("It works!"));
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "Logger Factory: ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext" + "\n" + output, output.contains("Logger Factory: ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext"));
+        assertTrue("Output should contain: " + "logback-classic-1.3.14.jar" + "\n" + output, output.contains("logback-classic-1.3.14.jar"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/logback.xml b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f6698188243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/org/apache/openejb/arquillian/tests/slf4j/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+-->
+<configuration debug="true" scan="true" scanPeriod="30 seconds">
+    <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
+        <file>${catalina.base}/logs/tomcat.log</file>
+        <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy">
+            <fileNamePattern>
+                ${catalina.base}/logs/application.%i.log.zip
+            </fileNamePattern>
+            <minIndex>1</minIndex>
+            <maxIndex>5</maxIndex>
+        </rollingPolicy>
+        <triggeringPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy">
+            <maxFileSize>1MB</maxFileSize>
+        </triggeringPolicy>
+    </appender>
+
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
+    </root>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/slf4j1x-pom.xml b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/slf4j1x-pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99c264ab83a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/slf4j1x-pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>org.apache.openejb.arquillian.tests</groupId>
+  <version>1.0.0</version>
+  <artifactId>slf4j1x-logback-deps</artifactId>
+
+  <properties>
+    <logback.version>1.2.11</logback.version>
+    <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
+  </properties>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+      <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${logback.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+      <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+      <version>${logback.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/slf4j2x-pom.xml b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/slf4j2x-pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..95a64519688
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arquillian/arquillian-tomee-tests/arquillian-tomee-webprofile-tests/src/test/resources/slf4j2x-pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>org.apache.openejb.arquillian.tests</groupId>
+    <version>1.0.0</version>
+    <artifactId>slf4j2x-logback-deps</artifactId>
+
+    <properties>
+        <logback.version>1.3.14</logback.version>
+        <slf4j.version>2.0.9</slf4j.version>
+    </properties>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/boms/tomee-microprofile/pom.xml b/boms/tomee-microprofile/pom.xml
index 0b859ea6deb..0cc5f1a7fc4 100644
--- a/boms/tomee-microprofile/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/tomee-microprofile/pom.xml
@@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
@@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
diff --git a/boms/tomee-plume/pom.xml b/boms/tomee-plume/pom.xml
index 251ccfd17ef..f4067035c2c 100644
--- a/boms/tomee-plume/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/tomee-plume/pom.xml
@@ -2007,7 +2007,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
@@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
diff --git a/boms/tomee-plus/pom.xml b/boms/tomee-plus/pom.xml
index 1b06038bc33..d28da8349e4 100644
--- a/boms/tomee-plus/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/tomee-plus/pom.xml
@@ -2007,7 +2007,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
@@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
diff --git a/boms/tomee-webprofile/pom.xml b/boms/tomee-webprofile/pom.xml
index 33cfd523d48..afae7923f7e 100644
--- a/boms/tomee-webprofile/pom.xml
+++ b/boms/tomee-webprofile/pom.xml
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-jdk14</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.36</version>
+      <version>2.0.9</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
           <artifactId>*</artifactId>
diff --git a/container/openejb-core/src/main/java/org/apache/openejb/util/classloader/URLClassLoaderFirst.java b/container/openejb-core/src/main/java/org/apache/openejb/util/classloader/URLClassLoaderFirst.java
index 62cf8c30db1..943efc597b0 100644
--- a/container/openejb-core/src/main/java/org/apache/openejb/util/classloader/URLClassLoaderFirst.java
+++ b/container/openejb-core/src/main/java/org/apache/openejb/util/classloader/URLClassLoaderFirst.java
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ public Class<?> loadClass(final String name, final boolean resolve) throws Class
     }
 
     public static boolean shouldDelegateToTheContainer(final ClassLoader loader, final String name) {
-        return shouldSkipJsf(loader, name) || shouldSkipSlf4j(loader, name);
+        if (shouldSkipJsf(loader, name)) return true;
+        return false;
     }
 
     private Class<?> loadFromParent(final String name, final boolean resolve) {
@@ -596,27 +597,6 @@ public static boolean isFilterableResource(final String name) {
             && (FILTERABLE_RESOURCES.contains(name) || name.startsWith("META-INF/services/org.apache.myfaces.spi"));
     }
 
-    public static boolean shouldSkipSlf4j(final ClassLoader loader, final String name) {
-        if (name == null || !name.startsWith("org.slf4j.")) {
-            return false;
-        }
-
-        try { // using getResource here just returns randomly the container one so we need getResources
-            final Enumeration<URL> resources = loader.getResources(SLF4J_BINDER_CLASS);
-            while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
-                final URL resource = resources.nextElement();
-                if (!resource.equals(SLF4J_CONTAINER)) {
-                    // applicative slf4j
-                    return false;
-                }
-            }
-        } catch (final Throwable e) {
-            // no-op
-        }
-
-        return true;
-    }
-
     // useful method for SPI
     public static Enumeration<URL> filterResources(final String name, final Enumeration<URL> result) {
         if (isFilterableResource(name)) {
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6f8fd219d5c..ab595b4140e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
     <version.xalan>2.7.2</version.xalan>
 
     <!-- Logging frameworks -->
-    <version.slf4j>1.7.36</version.slf4j>
+    <version.slf4j>2.0.9</version.slf4j>
     <version.log4j>1.2.17</version.log4j>
     <version.log4j2>2.20.0</version.log4j2>
     <version.commons-logging>1.2</version.commons-logging>