How to deal with “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space” error?

Question

I am writing a client-side Swing application (graphical font designer) on Java 5. Recently, I am running into java.lang.OutOfMemoryEr

Answer 1

Yes, with -Xmx you can configure more memory for your JVM. To be sure that you don't leak or waste memory. Take a heap dump and use the Eclipse Memory Analyzer to analyze your memory consumption.