StackOverflowError in Java =(

It does indeed mean that, too many recursions overflowed the stack. To increase the stack size pass the parameter -Xss to Java when running your program like this: "java -Xss8m TestClass"

Edit: 8 megabytes is actually quite an unrealistic stack setting, maybe 1mb or 2mb.

Have you checked through your code? Make sure it's not a bug that creates infinite recursion which will obviously create a stack overflow at some point.

I don't really know Java, but how large of a tree are you talking? It seems like you shouldn't have to manually increase the stack size unless you are doing something pretty big..

i am doing something pretty big ye =)

sorry but does anyone have any other ideas? i have tried -Xss200m (out of memory if i go any higher) and am still getting:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.getMethod(Unknown Source)
at java.beans.ReflectionUtils.findPublicMethod(Unknown Source)
at java.beans.ReflectionUtils.findMethod(Unknown Source)
...
...

what i have is an object which has a link to two other objects of the same type and i have lots of these objects, by linking these objects the way i have i have created a sorted suffix tree and am also able to traverse it by following the links.
thanks
Danny

Maybe you should try to count the number of objects you have first, and then do the same inside the saving routines and check if this number is bigger, in which case you're having infinite recursion or at least redundant recursion.

i dont think there is infinite recursion because it workes for smaller data size, its just when i try to process large ones.