diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationBinder.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationBinder.java
index ae2c46348a..7a746b4aeb 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationBinder.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/cfg/AnnotationBinder.java
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 public final class AnnotationBinder {
 
-    private static final CoreMessageLogger LOG = Logger.getMessageLogger(CoreMessageLogger.class, AnnotationBinder.class.getName());
+	private static final CoreMessageLogger LOG = Logger.getMessageLogger( CoreMessageLogger.class, AnnotationBinder.class.getName() );
 
     /*
      * Some design description
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/internal/CoreMessageLogger.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/internal/CoreMessageLogger.java
index 8adf879992..bafe0f1dd6 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/internal/CoreMessageLogger.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/internal/CoreMessageLogger.java
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ public interface CoreMessageLogger extends BasicLogger {
 	@Message(value = "On release of batch it still contained JDBC statements", id = 10)
 	void batchContainedStatementsOnRelease();
 
+	@LogMessage(level = INFO)
+	@Message(value = "Binding entity from annotated class: %s", id = 15)
+	void bindingEntityFromAnnotatedClass(String className);
+
 	@LogMessage(level = INFO)
 	@Message(value = "Bytecode provider name : %s", id = 21)
 	void bytecodeProvider(String provider);
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/AnnotationBinder.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/AnnotationBinder.java
index 25630f1afc..4d7c818ae6 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/AnnotationBinder.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/AnnotationBinder.java
@@ -25,9 +25,8 @@ package org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations;
 
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import org.hibernate.internal.CoreMessageLogger;
 import org.jboss.jandex.Index;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.entity.ConfiguredClass;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.entity.ConfiguredClassHierarchy;
@@ -40,6 +39,7 @@ import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.global.FetchProfileBinder;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.global.TableBinder;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.util.ConfiguredClassHierarchyBuilder;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataImpl;
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 
 /**
  * Main class responsible to creating and binding the Hibernate meta-model from annotations.
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.MetadataImpl;
  */
 public class AnnotationBinder {
 
-	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger( AnnotationBinder.class );
-
+	private static final CoreMessageLogger LOG = Logger.getMessageLogger( CoreMessageLogger.class, AnnotationBinder.class.getName() );
 	private final MetadataImpl metadata;
 	private final Index index;
 
@@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ public class AnnotationBinder {
 		// now we process each hierarchy one at the time
 		for ( ConfiguredClassHierarchy hierarchy : hierarchies ) {
 			for ( ConfiguredClass configuredClass : hierarchy ) {
-				LOG.info( "Binding entity from annotated class: {}", configuredClass.getName() );
+				LOG.bindingEntityFromAnnotatedClass( configuredClass.getName() );
 				EntityBinder entityBinder = new EntityBinder( metadata, configuredClass );
 				entityBinder.bind();
 			}
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/hbm/HibernateXmlBinder.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/hbm/HibernateXmlBinder.java
index d0ff9dd8fa..0c73841c86 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/hbm/HibernateXmlBinder.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/hbm/HibernateXmlBinder.java
@@ -32,9 +32,8 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.dom4j.Element;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import org.hibernate.internal.CoreMessageLogger;
 import org.hibernate.internal.util.StringHelper;
 import org.hibernate.internal.util.collections.JoinedIterator;
 import org.hibernate.internal.util.xml.XmlDocument;
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@ import org.hibernate.metamodel.domain.MetaAttribute;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.internal.JaxbRoot;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.hbm.xml.mapping.XMLHibernateMapping;
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.spi.MetadataImplementor;
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 
 /**
  * Binder for {@code hbm.xml} files
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.spi.MetadataImplementor;
  * @author Steve Ebersole
  */
 public class HibernateXmlBinder {
-	private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( HibernateXmlBinder.class );
+	private static final CoreMessageLogger LOG = Logger.getMessageLogger( CoreMessageLogger.class, HibernateXmlBinder.class.getName() );
 
 	private final MetadataImplementor metadata;
 	private final Map<String, MetaAttribute> globalMetas;
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public class HibernateXmlBinder {
 	}
 
 	public void bindRoot(JaxbRoot<XMLHibernateMapping> jaxbRoot) {
-		log.debug( jaxbRoot.toString() );
+		if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) LOG.debugf( jaxbRoot.toString() );
 		bindRoot( jaxbRoot, Collections.<String>emptySet() );
 	}
 
diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/xml/mocker/XmlHelper.java b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/xml/mocker/XmlHelper.java
index 3858e8bc9d..a6f0115d8a 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/xml/mocker/XmlHelper.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/metamodel/source/annotations/xml/mocker/XmlHelper.java
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
 import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
 import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
 
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+import org.hibernate.internal.CoreMessageLogger;
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 import org.hibernate.metamodel.source.Origin;
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ import org.hibernate.service.classloading.spi.ClassLoaderService;
  * @author Hardy Ferentschik
  */
 public class XmlHelper {
-    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( XmlHelper.class );
+    private static final CoreMessageLogger LOG = Logger.getMessageLogger( CoreMessageLogger.class, XmlHelper.class.getName() );
 
     private XmlHelper() {
     }
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public class XmlHelper {
             schema = sf.newSchema( schemaUrl );
         }
         catch ( SAXException e ) {
-            log.debug( "Unable to create schema for {}: {}", schemaVersion, e.getMessage() );
+            LOG.debugf( "Unable to create schema for %s: %s", schemaVersion, e.getMessage() );
         }
         return schema;
     }