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OutOfMemoryError

Posted by Mike Mannion on 26 Jun 1998, 4:21 AM

> is there any way of knowing that OutOfMemoryError occurred in my
> Java application? It seems like this error is automatically handled
> by AWT classes and all I can do is watch the console window for
> stack trace dumps.

Sounds like you're using 1.2!

The simple solution is to provide a top-level exception handler
of the form

try { ... }
catch (Throwable t)
{ // Handle it...
}

Since Errors are subclasses of Throwable, this try/catch will
simple catch every kind of exception.

There is an alternative to this which you may find useful:

When an exception is thrown, it applies only to the current thread.
As each thread maintains its own calling stack, it is usually up to
the exception handler of one of the methods in the calling chain
to deal with any exceptions which occur. If no exception handler
is provided (e.g. we typically don't provide an exception handler
for Errors), then the stack unwinds until it reaches the initial
caller. At this point the system calls the method
uncaughtException() on the thread's thread group. The default
functionality of uncaughtException is to print a stack trace.

Now, ThreadGroup can be subclassed and the uncaughtException method
overridden. This gives the possibility to provide some last minute
functionality which can be reused in multiple contexts.
Just make sure you kick off the functionality you need in threads
or thread groups which are members of the subclassed thread
group.

Hope this is useful.

- Mike



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