How to remove System.out.println's from codebase

Question

We have a huge (old legacy java) code-base, where many files (around 5k) have System.out.println\'s. We are planning to remove them for cleanup/performance reasons. How can

Answer 1

Log4E is an eclipse plugin that has a "Replace System.out.println()" feature. It will happily convert all those pesky println calls to log4j calls. It will even wrap them with a log level check.