Memory leak when when returning array of strings to calling vb program

Question

Hi,
I have a VBA script running in Excel 2010 which invokes a java swing app using the ActiveX bridge.
Below is a short snippet of what happens
Set Requester = CreateObject("ERequester.Bean.1")
Set RequestResult = Requester.executeRequest(some parameters.....)
Dim dArray
dArray = RequestResult.getResultStringArray()
Erase dArray
At the Java side (using jdk1.6.0_26) the getResultStringArray() function is as given below
public String[] getResultStringArray()
String[] ticValues= new String[10000];
Some code which creates local string objects and sets it to each position in the array
return ticValues;
After calling RequestResult.getResultStringArray() and releasing the array at VBA side the stings are still present in jvm memory and are not garbage collected
As the function gets called multiple times, JVM continuously keeps increasing its memory footprint until it reaches the max limit and causes OutOfMemoryError.
Any idea what may be going wrong?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Whne the program starts, you could create an array of all control references (from the pane property: "Controls[]") and get their label. To get a reference from the label, just search the label array and index into the array of references to get the corresponding reference.
Still, this method is flawed.
You can have multiple controls with the same name, which would confuse things.
How about controls within cluster, etc.
I think somebody wrote a tool once for this, but I don't remember where I saw it.
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