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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject: Re: analysis of java application logs
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Martin Gregorie wrote:
> Fair point. However, my usual debugging statement takes the form:
>
> if (debug>  0)
>    debugger.trace(result + " = method(" + arg + ")");
>
> Ugly, I know, but quite efficient, since when debugging is off even the
> cost of the method call cost is. I use an integer to control debugging
> rather than a boolean so I can control its volume: "java Application -dd"
> would be expected to provide more detailed debugging output than "java
> Application -d"
>

What's wrong with

   if ( logger.isDebugEnabled() ) ...

or

   if ( logger.getLevel().isGreaterOrEqual( Logger.DEBUG )) ...
?

-- 
Lew
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