Java “constant string too long” compile error. Only happens using Ant, not when using Eclipse

Question

I have a few really long strings in one class for initializing user information. When I compile in Eclipse, I don\'t get any errors or warnings, and the resulting .jar runs

Answer 1

The length of a string constant in a class file is limited to 2^16 bytes in UTF-8 encoding, this should not be dependent on the compiler used. Perhaps you are using a different character set in your ant file than in eclipse, so that some characters need more bytes than before. Please check the encoding attribute of your javac task.