Ken,
Question is whether OOMEs can be handled gracefully at all. I'm not an expert in this field, but it may be that the JVM enters an error state as soon as this error is triggerred. Note that the JVM self may be unable to get sufficient resources for its basic operations. But then again, I'm not an expert. But I have witnessed heated discussions on this topic, a few years ago. So my suggestion is to first do some research to confirm OOMEs can in theory be handled gracefully. Cheers, Ernst =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".