Re: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError Please help!

From:

"barry_normal" <barry_normal@yahoo.co.uk>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

11 Oct 2006 06:26:01 -0700

Message-ID:

<1160573160.932096.277620@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>

Just in case, here's the code which is causing the error. I don't think
there's anything wrong with it as I'm sure I got it to work in the
past. I might be wrong though.

<code>
public void readFileIn(String fn){

  System.out.println("Hi");

    Document doc = null;

    try{

        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        doc = db.parse(new File(fn));
        myDoc = doc;
        System.out.println("file parsed okay, thankyou");

    }catch (Exception e){

        System.out.println("problem parsing the file old chap");

        }

    }

</code>

barry_normal wrote:

Hello there,

I'm trying to do some simple text formatting, starting with a base XML
file which is about 6MB in size.

The problem I'm having is that I keep getting this message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Java Result: 1

I've tried setting the heap size using java -Xmx512M and many other
combinations but this seems to have no effect at all.
I'm using os x 10.4.8 and Netbeans 5. My system has 4GB of RAM.

If anyone can point me to a solution I'd be very grateful

Thanks
B