JSP file is too large to run in TOMCAT 4.1.18

Question

When updating TOMCAT from 3.2.3 to 4.1.18, I got an error message .
After trying, I find TOMCAT 4.1.18 will crash if the .class file is too large.
(These files will run well in TOMCAT 3.2.3)
Test data:(bye adding the code "<!--Hello-->" into JSP file)
binary code is 209 KB (214,477 ������) -->ok.
binary code is 216 KB (222,079 ������) -->ok.
binary code is 224 KB (230,270 ������) -->false.
The web shows message as below. After I downsize the crash JSP.
It will run perfectly.
But I hope to keep the source "completely".
How could I do for it?
HTTP Status 500 - Internal Server Error
type Exception report
message Internal Server Error
description The server encountered an internal error (Internal Server Error) that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
An error occurred at line: 5,688 in the jsp file: /html/customer.jsp
Generated servlet error:
[javac] Compiling 1 source file
C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18\work\Tice_Adm\localhost\_\html\customer_jsp.java:8164: code too large for try statement
}catch(SQLException e){
^
An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null
Apache Tomcat/4.1.18

Answer 1

A Simple solution,
Modulize this JSP page. If you have 5,000+ lines of code in your jsp page, well you might want to consider moving alot of this logic into Beans and or multiple jsp pages and do jsp:includes to the other pages.
I personally recommend that you review your design and break it down into multiple Beans. There really shouldn't be too much code in your JSP pages.
Look into Struts or Web work to get a better understanding of what I am talking about.
Look into MVC designs and Model 2 designs.
I hope this helps.
-Richard Burton