Maximum lines of code permitted in a Java class?

Question

How many lines of code can a .java file contain? Does it depend on the JVM being used?

Answer 1

I remember actually running into this limit once in a complex JSP page in Tomcat 4 (way in the past when people were still using JSPs). The java file generated from the JSP had a method that was too big to compile, I think I had to split up the file or do some other stunt, which of course was a good idea in terms of readability anyway.

Sun's bug tracker tells me some people still have the same problem.