String limit

Question

Is there a limit to the number of characters in a string?
I have a program that displays a string of text in a window.
When you double the number of characters in the string
you get odd results.
Odd meaning if this is a portlet on a page with tabs the tabs disappear.
Change the string back to the original number of charaters and the tabs reappear.
Any ideas? here is some code.
This is the small string:
789 bytes
public java.lang.String getTraffic() {
     return "<CENTER>" +
          "<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"2\">" +
     "<TR>" +
     "<TD height=\"35\"><img src=\"https://eportal.llnl.gov/portal/images/dev/traffic/traffic.gif\"/ ALT=\"Image of car\"></TD>" +
     "<TD CLASS=\"PortletText1\" height=\"35\"><a href=\"http://traffic.yahoo.com/traffic/San_Francisco_Bay_Area/San_Francisco\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Traffic!!</a><br>" +
"<a href=\"http://www.kpix.com/traffic/ALL.html\" target=\"_blank\">KPIX Traffic!!</a>" +
     "</TD>" +
     "</TR>" +
     "<TR>" +
     "<TD CLASS=\"PortletText1\" colspan=\"2\"> Use the above links to check traffic!</TD>" +
     "</TR>" +
          "</TABLE>" +
          "</CENTER>" +
          "<CENTER>" +
          "<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"2\">" +
     "<TR>" +
     "<TD height=\"35\"><img src=\"https://eportal.llnl.gov/pasdaasdasdfdfadasdfasdaal/images/dev/traffic/traffic.gif\"/ ALT=\"Image of car\"></TD>"+
     "<CENTER>" +
          "<TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLSPACING=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"2\">" +
     "<TR>";      }
This is the bigger string:
1026 bytes
public java.lang.String getBenefits() {
     return "<TABLE CELLSPACING=\"2\" CELLPADDING=\"2\" WIDTH=\"100%\">" +
          "<TR VALIGN=\"top\" CLASS=\"PortletText1\">" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.ucop.edu/bencom/forms/forms.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Bencom Forms</A></TD>" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.calpers.ca.gov/retire/estimate/default.htm\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Calpers Calculator</A></TD>" +
          "</TR>" +
          "<TR VALIGN=\"top\" CLASS=\"PortletText1\">" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.ucop.edu/bencom/oe/carrier.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Health Care Providers</A></TD>" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.ucop.edu/bencom/oe/carrier.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Health Care Providers</A></TD>" +
          "</TR>" +
          "<TR VALIGN=\"top\" CLASS=\"PortletText1\">" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://finwebsvr/ADS_payroll/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Payroll</A></TD>" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.ucop.edu/bencom/rs/ucrpcalc/estimator.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Retirement Estimator</A></TD>" +
          "</TR>" +
          "<TR VALIGN=\"top\" CLASS=\"PortletText1\">" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.ucop.edu/bencom/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">UC Bencom</A></TD>" +
          "<TD><A HREF=\"http://www.llnl.gov/llnl/02employment/benefits/benefits.htm\" TARGET=\"_blank\">UC Benefits Office</A></TD>" +
          "</TR>" +
          "</TABLE>";
based on what button you push you get one or the other string:
public void renderPortletContents(PortletRenderRequest request) {
try {
PrintWriter out = request.getWriter("text/html");
String url = request.getPageURL();
String benefits = request.getParameter("Benefits");
String traffic = request.getParameter("Traffic");
String html = request.getParameter("pastedHtml");
String baseHtml = getBaseHtml();
baseHtml = insertUrlIntoBaseHtml(baseHtml, url);
//check to see if the Apply button or Cancel button from the form has been pressed
if ((benefits != null) | (traffic != null)) {
if (benefits != null) {
baseHtml = insertCurrentHtml(getBenefits());
baseHtml = insertNumberOfBytes(baseHtml, getNumberOfBytes(getBenefits()));
} else
if (traffic != null) {
baseHtml = insertCurrentHtml(getTraffic());
baseHtml = insertNumberOfBytes(baseHtml, getNumberOfBytes(getTraffic()));
baseHtml = insertUrlIntoBaseHtml(baseHtml, url);
out.print(baseHtml);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
Any ideas?
Thanks

Answer 1

To reproduce this problem you would have install it as a portlet
in Oracle Portal. Can you do that? If so
I can send you a library .jar file, java code of program, and provider.xml.
Then you would have to add it to a web page that has tabs.
I was hoping to find out some simple java issue, so if it isn't I'll have
to take this up with Oracle.
Let me know if you can test it.
Thanks