Performance Tip: Use StringBuilder instead of String for a non constant field.

Overview

Appending to a String is much slower than appending to a StringBuilder.

Append to a StringBuilder

From Logger.entering()

String msg = "ENTRY";
// later
for (int i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
    msg = msg + " {" + i + "}"; 
}

Inside the loop it creates a StringBuilder and another String every time. It can be replaced with code which creates one StringBuilder and String, total.

StringBuilder msgSB = new StringBuilder("ENTRY");
// later
for (int i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
    msgSB.append(" {").append(i).append("}"); 
}
String msg = msgSB.toString();