Within Commons Logging's documentation: http://commons.apache.org/logging/apidocs/index.html[/url] anonymous wrote : | Performance is often a logging concern. By examining the appropriate property, a component can avoid expensive operations (producing information to be logged). | | For example, | | if (log.isDebugEnabled()) { | ... do something expensive ... | log.debug(theResult); | } | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222049#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...