diff --git a/MANIFEST.txt b/MANIFEST.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..efbeea9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Main-Class: com.github.sakserv.sequencefile.SequenceFileReader
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c694b34..62ec680 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@
     </repositories>
 
     <dependencies>
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>log4j</groupId>
+    <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+    <version>1.2.17</version>
+</dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
@@ -149,7 +154,21 @@
         </resources>
 
         <plugins>
-
+<plugin>
+  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+  <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+  <version>1.2.1</version>
+  <executions>
+    <execution>
+      <goals>
+        <goal>java</goal>
+      </goals>
+    </execution>
+  </executions>
+  <configuration>
+    <mainClass>com.github.sakserv.sequencefile.SequenceFileReader</mainClass>
+  </configuration>
+</plugin>
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/sakserv/sequencefile/SequenceFileReader.java b/src/main/java/com/github/sakserv/sequencefile/SequenceFileReader.java
index 8f28cf5..5d23cae 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/sakserv/sequencefile/SequenceFileReader.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/sakserv/sequencefile/SequenceFileReader.java
@@ -16,19 +16,13 @@ package com.github.sakserv.sequencefile;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 public class SequenceFileReader {
     
-    // Logger
-    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SequenceFileReader.class);
-    
     public static void main(String[] args) {
 
         String inputFile = args[0];
@@ -42,15 +36,16 @@ public class SequenceFileReader {
                     SequenceFile.Reader.file(seqFilePath));
 
             Text key = new Text();
-            IntWritable val = new IntWritable();
+            Text val = new Text();
 
             while (reader.next(key, val)) {
-                LOG.info("Sequence File Data: Key: " + key + "\tValue: " + val);
+                //LOG.info(val);
+		System.out.println(val);
             }
 
             reader.close();
         } catch(IOException e) {
-            LOG.error("ERROR: Could not load hadoop configuration");
+            System.err.println("ERROR: Could not load hadoop configuration");
             e.printStackTrace();
         }