STaX: OutOfMemoryError when parsing big files

Java 6 includes STaX , when I tried to parse a Evernote backup file with it, I got a OOME error. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.XMLStringBuffer.append(XMLStringBuffer.java:205) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.refresh(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1520) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.invokeListeners(XMLEntityScanner.java:2070) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.peekChar(XMLEntityScanner.java:486) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2679) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:140) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:548) at Googling a bit I found a bug report 6536111. It says that this should be fixed in 1.6.0_14. But I tried Sun 1.6.0_16 and no luck. I got the exact same thing. ...

August 25, 2009

Subversion error: 503 Service unavailable

If you faced the following subversion message in windows: svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos/demosystemeic' svn: PROPFIND of '/repos/demosystemeic': 503 Service Unavailable (http://x.x.x.x) Probably the problem is caused because you are proxying your request via a proxy that doesn’t support HTTP methods like PROPFIND, etc. If you don’t really need the proxy to access the repository edit the file c:\Documents and Settings_username_\Application Data\Subversion\servers (Note: Subversion directory is hidden) and comment out the following items ...

March 7, 2007