Well, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're in an infinite loop. As
another poster pointed out though it does mean you're running out of stack
space. Without going into the gory details every time you call a function a
bit of information is put on the stack, and when the function returns the
info is pulled back off. Recursion can be a bit touchy and it is very easy
to get into an infinite loop (or more precisely infinite recursion). And
since every iteration is a new function call, more info is pushed onto the
stack every call. Eventually all the space is used up.
But more to your problem, I would take a serious look at the design. Not so
much of the code that generates the strings as how much is being generated.
Do you really want to present a user with a combobox of 600 or more entries?
That doesn't sound very user-friendly. I've come across some pretty long
ones at times, and they are aggravating to navigate. Perhaps you should look
into reorganizing your pages in some way so that you won't have to generate
such a long list.
HTH!
Eddie
----- Original Message -----
From: Liza J Alenchery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 7:12 AM
Subject: StackOverflowError
> Hello people
>
> I am using recusrion to fill up a combobox with strings in my JSP
> program. It works fine when the number of strings is less, but throws
> a StackOverflowError when the number of strings is 600 or more. I
> found in the documentation that StackOverflowError means that "an
> application recurses too deeply." Does that mean I am going into a
> infinite loop? If not, what can be done in the situation? Is a
> re-design the only way out?
>
> Thanks in advance
> liza
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints!
> http://photos.yahoo.com
>
>
===========================================================================
> To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff
JSP-INTEREST".
> Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at:
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html
> http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html
> http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP
> http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
>
===========================================================================
To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST".
Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at:
http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html
http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html
http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP
http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
