JDeveloperStudio 10.3 -- ADF Faces -- Too many components causes crash

Question

My page has finally gotten so complex that the stack overflows and the application just aborts. I can remove a couple of components and the page works fine. It doesn't seem to matter which components I remove; when I navigate to the page the following appears in my Embedded OC4J Server log.
Debugger connection to debuggee process has been lost.
Process exited.
Debugger disconnected from local process.
The MyPagejspx.java file is over 500K and the class file is about 110K. If I remove some components and get the total MyPagejspx.java file under 500K then the page works again.
The page includes a lot of MapViewer navigation controls and a number of tables that are used to display and edit attribute data. Most of these tables include nested tables inside of their detailStamps. Rows in a table of streets have tables of sites. This is where things start to fail.
Sometimes (but not always) I get a message that tells me that could not find the StackOverflowError class so I have tried adding a -Xss1024k option to my Java options but this didn't help; neither did -Xss2048k.
I am highly confident that the problem is not caused by the code itself as I can remove any panelGroup or panelForm set on the page and it works. I put any back and it fails. It is just too many components. Everything compiles fine but JDeveloper just disconnects from the application when the page is opened.
So ... any ideas of what I might do to continue developing this page or do I have to break my application into more pages (not what the users want).
Thanks, Mark

Answer 1

This was easy enough to do without bothering with any database or tables. I created a bottom level include jspx as follows:
Include-0.jspf
<af:panelBox text="Bottom include file has 3 panelForms" >
  <af:panelHorizontal>
    <af:panelForm rows="1" maxColumns="1">
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
    </af:panelForm>
    <af:panelForm rows="1" maxColumns="1">
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
    </af:panelForm>
    <af:panelForm rows="1" maxColumns="1">
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
      <af:inputText label="Lorem ipsum" rows="3" wrap="true" readOnly="true"
                    value="Proin orci. Suspendisse cursus lobortis magna. Vivamus id tortor. Phasellus consectetuer, quam sit amet laoreet ultrices, tortor leo aliquet turpis, ut elementum nisi eros et nisl."    
                    />
    </af:panelForm>
  </af:panelHorizontal>
</af:panelBox>I included this in another jspf file
Include-1.jspf
<af:panelBox text="Include-1.jspf includes Include-0.jspf 5 times.">
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
</af:panelBox>I include that in another jspf
Include-2.jspf
<af:panelBox text="Include-2.jspf includes Include-1.jspf 5 times.">
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-1.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-1.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-1.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-1.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-1.jspf" />
</af:panelBox>And that was references by my jspx page.
TooManyComponents.jspx
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="1.2" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
          xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces" xmlns:afh="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/html">
  <jsp:text>
    <![CDATA[ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> ]]>
  </jsp:text>
  <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>
  <f:view>
    <afh:script source="/jscript/view_tools.js"/>
    <af:document rendered="false">
      <af:form id="notloggedin">
        <af:panelPage title="This never happens but it mirrors my problem layour">
          <jsp:directive.include file="header.jspf"/>
          <af:commandMenuItem text="You are not logged in.  Please click this message to be re-directed to the Login Page" action="login"/>
        </af:panelPage>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>
    <af:document rendered="true">
      <af:form id="loggedin">
        <af:panelPage title="Too much of a good thing?">
          <jsp:directive.include file="/header.jspf"/>
          <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-2.jspf" />
        </af:panelPage>
      </af:form>
    </af:document>
  </f:view>
</jsp:root>This particular setup yeilded me the following error
Fatal error: Cannot find class java/lang/StackOverflowError
Process exited.
Debugger disconnected from local process.If I put a second <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-2.jspf" /> in my jspx file I get the following compile time error.
Error: code segment of method _jspService(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) too largeIf I remove one of the jsp:include directives from my Include-1.jspf so that it reads as follows:
<af:panelBox text="Include-1.jspf includes Include-0.jspf 4 times.">
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
  <jsp:directive.include file="/Include-0.jspf" />
</af:panelBox>The application works.
I took all the JDeveloperStudio defaults for creating my project. I can send you a War file if you let me know where to send it.
Thanks, Mark