old habbits die hard... been using java for the past few years and am still using System.out.println for debugging (turning it off on production by runing a script that puts "//" on all System.out statements)... lately however due to an increasing addiction to junit i took the plunge and now as heavily addicted as well to log4j... the commons-logging was a welcome addition to the toolset as this somewhat allows you to choose other logging frameworks...

log.debug() is now a focker...