== Why is this an issue?

There is no reason to concatenate literal strings. Doing so is an exercise is reducing code readability. Instead, the strings should be combined. Similarly, literal strings should not be ``++append++``ed to a ``++StringBuffer++`` or ``++StringBuilder++`` sequentially, but combined into one call.

=== Noncompliant code example

[source,java]
----
String message = "Hello " + "world" + "!";  // Noncompliant
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("I'm pleased").append(" to meet you.");  //Noncompliant
----

=== Compliant solution

[source,java]
----
String message = "Hello world!";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("I'm pleased to meet you.");  
----

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