Getting stack overflow exception whilst reading from HashMap

Question

hi,
We are getting stack oveflow exception exception whilst reading from the HashMap.
Following are few details about the code
We have a swing based client and Session beans and Entity beans deployed on Weblogic Server.
When the server is started, a session bean method queries to data base and creates a java object for each row in the data base.This java object is then stored in HashMap. These java objects have all get/set methods . and it has attributes of primitive data type as well as other java objects.This Hahsmap is then returned to client.
When client calls this method and the method processes succesfuly , but when tries to return the HashMap, it gives Stack overflow exception.
Looking at the stack trace i think this exception is thrown when the HashMap.readObject() methods is being invoked.
does any body have any idea about this ? a quick help is much appriciated.

Answer 1

Stack overflow is often caused by infinity loops No, an infinite loop would be like while (true) {
    // stuff
} That doesn't cause stack overflow.
or
recursive method calls.Bingo.