[jdom-interest] OutOfMemoryError

[Mattias Jiderhamn]

At 2006-05-08 15:39, Paul Hunnisett wrote:
>I work on a university portal where our channels are developed as portlets.
>
>I recently started a new portlet which would act as a client to a 
>Web service.  The WS returned a DOM which would then be passed to an 
>XSL transform.  I decided that this was a good opportunity to test 
>JDOM in anger and convert the returned DOM in to JDOM before 
>anything else happens to it.
>
>The problem is that after only a little interaction with the portlet 
>I get an OutOfMemoryError that brings down the whole portal.  I'm 
>confident that it's JDOM that causes this as we have several other 
>channels which do the same thing with standard DOM and cause no such problems.
>
>All of the returned documents are small.
>
>My initial impression of JDOM is very good, but unless we can fix 
>this then it's not going to be an option for us.
>
>I've already tried increasing the VM memory allocation abd still get 
>the same problem - as well as grinding my workstation to a crawl!

Are you ouf of heap or PermGen?
What application server are you using? Tomcat has a well known leak 
of PermGen space when an application is redeployed over and over, 
which would be the case during development.