diff --git a/pax-logging-service/src/main/java/org/ops4j/pax/logging/service/internal/PaxLoggingServiceImpl.java b/pax-logging-service/src/main/java/org/ops4j/pax/logging/service/internal/PaxLoggingServiceImpl.java
index 7b1cd18dd..ac7646634 100644
--- a/pax-logging-service/src/main/java/org/ops4j/pax/logging/service/internal/PaxLoggingServiceImpl.java
+++ b/pax-logging-service/src/main/java/org/ops4j/pax/logging/service/internal/PaxLoggingServiceImpl.java
@@ -404,7 +404,8 @@ private static void setLevelToJavaLogging( final Dictionary configuration )
 			if (name.equals( "log4j.rootLogger" ))
 			{
                 setJULLevel( java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(""), value );
-                setJULLevel( java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(java.util.logging.Logger.GLOBAL_LOGGER_NAME), value );
+                // "global" comes from java.util.logging.Logger.GLOBAL_LOGGER_NAME, but that constant wasn't added until Java 1.6
+                setJULLevel( java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("global"), value );
 			}
 
             if (name.startsWith("log4j.logger."))