diff --git a/components/mediation-commons/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mediation/commons/rest/api/swagger/APIGenerator.java b/components/mediation-commons/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mediation/commons/rest/api/swagger/APIGenerator.java
index 90e41421f7a..0f081dc103d 100644
--- a/components/mediation-commons/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mediation/commons/rest/api/swagger/APIGenerator.java
+++ b/components/mediation-commons/src/main/java/org/wso2/carbon/mediation/commons/rest/api/swagger/APIGenerator.java
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public API generateSynapseAPI() throws APIGenException {
                 // url can be relative the place where the swagger is hosted.
                 apiContext = serversString;
             }
-            if (apiContext.isEmpty() || apiContext.equals("/")) {
+            if (apiContext.isEmpty() || "/".equals(apiContext)) {
                 apiContext = SwaggerConstants.DEFAULT_CONTEXT;
             }
             //cleanup context : remove ending '/'