Stack overflow when writting custom tags

Question

Hi all
I am writting complex custom tags and deploying them into JBoss. The tags are nested and they also use other classes like Vector or HashTable.
Deployed the war file into Jboss, when browsing some JSP pages I get the : java.lang.StackOverflowError!
for example:
HTML code .....
<CustomTag1>
<CustomTag2></CustomTag2>
<CustomTag3/>
</CustomTag2>
HTML code.....
CustomTag1 bufferes it's body and pirnts it out on doafterbody.
about 20 or so classes are working together to publish the output.
Any help!

Answer 1

Amazingly I don't have any stack trace of error, just plain :
[jbossweb] WARNING: Exception for /index2.jsp java.lang.StackOverflowError
this is really strange, i trace the code by writing messages to standard output console and program stops in different locations every now and then.
for example : I have a method to save current state of a tag and then a method to render the output of the tag. the sequence is like:
in customTag1 the one that all tags of nested inside it.
public int doAfterBody()
InitChildTags();
LoadChildTagsStates();
ProcessRequest();
CallLoadPage(); // an astract method used by descendants of CustomTag1
SaveChildTagsStates();
RenderChildTags();
The program sometimes stops at "SaveChildTagsStates(); " sometimes at "RenderChildTags();"!