diff --git a/spring-websocket/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/socket/TomcatWebSocketTestServer.java b/spring-websocket/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/socket/TomcatWebSocketTestServer.java
index 0c4aa05d53d..6939b8241f0 100644
--- a/spring-websocket/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/socket/TomcatWebSocketTestServer.java
+++ b/spring-websocket/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/socket/TomcatWebSocketTestServer.java
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleEvent;
 import org.apache.catalina.LifecycleListener;
 import org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector;
 import org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol;
 import org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.FilterDef;
 import org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.FilterMap;
@@ -45,6 +47,8 @@ import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;
  */
 public class TomcatWebSocketTestServer implements WebSocketTestServer {
 
+	private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(TomcatWebSocketTestServer.class);
+
 	private Tomcat tomcatServer;
 
 	private int port = -1;
@@ -127,7 +131,9 @@ public class TomcatWebSocketTestServer implements WebSocketTestServer {
 		this.context.addLifecycleListener(new LifecycleListener() {
 			@Override
 			public void lifecycleEvent(LifecycleEvent event) {
-				System.out.println(event.getType());
+				if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
+					logger.debug("Event: " + event.getType());
+				}
 			}
 		});
 	}
diff --git a/spring-websocket/src/test/resources/log4j.properties b/spring-websocket/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
index 17f0648403c..d591efdb0a7 100644
--- a/spring-websocket/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
+++ b/spring-websocket/src/test/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@ log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
 log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
 log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%-5p] [%c] - %m%n
 
-log4j.rootCategory=WARN, console
+log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
+log4j.appender.file.file=bin/spring-websocket.log
+log4j.appender.file.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.file.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{HH:mm:ss,SSS} [%c] - %m%n
+
+log4j.rootCategory=WARN, console, file
+
 log4j.logger.org.springframework.web=WARN
 log4j.logger.org.springframework.web.socket=WARN
 log4j.logger.org.springframework.messaging=WARN