Well, i can assure you, this is not the case! Running my application, everything works as expected, log-wise. Only when initiating the Synchronize through exec-maven-plugin, i get all this stuff! Somehow, the DEBUG level is enforced for everything. Even for Jets3t, as other logs encountered are:
21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.479 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.i.r.h.RestStorageService - Response entity: org.apache.http.conn.BasicManagedEntity@2441db59
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.479 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.i.r.h.RestStorageService - Entity length: 0
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.479 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.i.r.h.RestStorageService - Received expected response code: true
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.479 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.i.r.h.RestStorageService - expected code(s): [200, 204].
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.479 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.u.RestUtils$ThreadSafeConnManager - Released connection is reusable.
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.480 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.a.h.i.conn.tsccm.ConnPoolByRoute - Releasing connection [HttpRoute[{s}->https://odesk-agora-prod.s3.amazonaws.com:443]][null]
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.480 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.a.h.i.conn.tsccm.ConnPoolByRoute - Pooling connection [HttpRoute[{s}->https://odesk-agora-prod.s3.amazonaws.com:443]][null]; keep alive indefinitely
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.480 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.a.h.i.conn.tsccm.ConnPoolByRoute - Notifying no-one, there are no waiting threads
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.481 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Cleaning up REST metadata items
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.481 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Removed header prefix x-amz- from key: x-amz-request-id=>request-id
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.481 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Leaving header item unchanged: Date=Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:56 GMT
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.482 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Parsing date string 'Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:56 GMT' into Date object for key: Date
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.483 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Leaving HTTP header item unchanged: Content-Length=0
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.483 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Removed header prefix x-amz- from key: x-amz-id-2=>id-2
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.483 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Ignoring metadata item: Location=/odesk-agora-prod
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.483 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Leaving HTTP header item unchanged: Content-Type=application/octet-stream
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.483 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.ServiceUtils - Ignoring metadata item: Server=AmazonS3
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.484 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - uploads.storeEmptyDirectories=true
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.484 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - filecomparer.skip-upload-of-md5-files=false
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.484 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - filecomparer.skip-symlinks=false
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.535 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - upload.ignoreMissingPaths=false
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.535 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - upload.max-part-size=1073741824
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.538 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - filecomparer.bucket-listing.odesk-agora-prod=null
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.547 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - threaded-service.admin-max-thread-count=20
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.547 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - threaded-service.max-thread-count=2
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.547 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - httpclient.max-connections=20
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.548 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.jets3t.service.utils.FileComparer - Listing objects in 'odesk-agora-prod' using 1 prefixes: [agora/hystrix-dashboard]
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.552 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - threaded-service.admin-max-thread-count=20
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.552 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - threaded-service.ignore-exceptions-in-multi=false
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.552 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.m.ThreadedStorageService$ThreadGroupManager - Started ThreadManager
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.553 [org.jets3t.apps.synchronize.Synchronize.main()] DEBUG o.j.s.m.ThreadedStorageService$ThreadGroupManager - Thread 1 of 1 has started
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.554 [Thread-2] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - s3service.disable-dns-buckets=false
build
21-May-2013 13:29:55
13:29:55.555 [Thread-2] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - s3service.s3-endpoint=
s3.amazonaws.combuild 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.555 [Thread-2] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - s3service.s3-endpoint-virtual-path=
build 21-May-2013 13:29:55 13:29:55.555 [Thread-2] DEBUG org.jets3t.service.Jets3tProperties - s3service.s3-endpoint-https-port=443