Heap management difference in plugin2 makes applet to go out of heap space exception or crash.

The following exceptions can be observed in the console :

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.text.GapContent.getString(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.text.AbstractDocument.getText(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent.getText(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.deploy.util.ConsoleWindow$25.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.StringBuffer.toString(Unknown Source)
        at sun.awt.datatransfer.DataTransferer.translateTransferable(Unknown Source)
        at sun.awt.windows.WDataTransferer.translateTransferable(Unknown Source)
        at sun.awt.windows.WClipboard.setContentsNative(Unknown Source)
        at sun.awt.datatransfer.SunClipboard.setContents(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.TransferHandler.exportToClipboard(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.TransferHandler$TransferAction.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent.invokeAction(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent.copy(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.deploy.util.ConsoleWindow$11.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
        at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)


Full customer reproduction problem available in the comments section.

Increasing -Xmx to higher values (tested up to 256Mb) will just postpone the problem.
Posted Date : 2008-11-18 13:59:06.0

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Did you try not printing any value in the console?