[jdom-interest] RE: Memory and Speed problems with SAXBuilder

[Malachi de AElfweald]

I can't downgrade the JVM. How would I upgrade to a newer version? CVS?

Malachi

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:47:27 +0100, Laurent Bihanic 
<laurent.bihanic at atosorigin.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
>> Worst performer was SAXBuilder (which I originally used because we were 
>> building from
>> an InputStream).  Also, SAXBuilder was the ONLY one that required the 
>> huge amount of
>> heap space.
>
> You are probably using JDOM beta8 with JDK 1.4.1. These two are 
> incompatible due to the memory leak bug in StringBuffer introduced in JDK 
> 1.4.1.
> For more information, please see 
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4724129.html
>
> Sun does not plan to fix this bug until JDK 1.5 (Tiger).
>
> To fix this problem, you have 2 solutions:
> 1. Stick to JDOM beta8 but downgrade to JDK 1.4.0 or 1.3.1
> 2. Stick to JDK 1.4.1 and upgrade to the latest JDOM which includes a 
> workaround for the JDK bug.
>
> Laurent
>
>
>



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