The method is building a String using concatenation in a loop. In each iteration, the String is converted to a StringBuilder, appended to, and converted back to a String. This can lead to a cost quadratic in the number of iterations, as the growing string is recopied in each iteration. Better performance can be obtained by using a StringBuilder explicitly. http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/bugDescriptions.html#SBSC_USE_STRINGBUFFER_CONCATENATIONmaster