The point of this is to get rid of crap like: private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Customer.class); if ( log.isDebugEnabled() ) { | log.debug("deleting customer " + customer.getName() + " in region " + customer.getRegion()); | } And let you use: @Logger private static final Log log; log.debug("deleting customer #{customer.name} in region #{customer.region}"); | } I don't know about you, but I think thats a *significant* improvement in readability. I don't think we did a bad job on this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4012756#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...