<name>Scott Sanders</name>
      <email>sanders at apache dot org</email>
      <organization>Apache Software Foundation</organization>
    </developer>
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      <id>rdonkin</id>
      <name>Robert Burrell Donkin</name>
      <email>rdonkin at apache dot org</email>
      <organization>Apache Software Foundation</organization>
    </developer>
    <developer>
      <id>donaldp</id>
      <name>Peter Donald</name>

Do the string concatenation only if logging is enabled if (log.isDebugEnabled()) log.debug("MyComponent processing " + value); ... } } META-INF/LICENSE.txt /* * $Header: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-commons/logging/LICENSE.txt,v 1.2 2003/04/06 20:37:31 rdonkin Exp $ * $Revision: 1.2 $ * $Date: 2003/04/06 20:37:31 $ * * ========== * * The Apache Software License, Version 1.1 * * Copyright (c) 1999-2003 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights * reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary...