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copied!<p>Here is what I found. After posting my question I went on and modified the compile task with the attributes <code>fork="true"</code>, <code>memoryinitialsize="256m"</code> and <code>memorymaximumsize="1024m"</code> (a found today that this was suggested by Kieron and jmanning2k, thanks for your time). This didn't solve the problem nonetheless.</p> <p>I decided to start removing classes from the source tree to see if a could pinpoint the problem. Turns out we had a Web Service client class for <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Axis 1.4</a> that was auto-generated from a WSDL file. Now, this class is a monster (as in Frankenstein), it has 167 field members (all of them of type String), 167 getter/setter pairs (1 for each field), a constructor that receives all 167 fields as parameters, an equals method that compares all 167 fields in a strange way. For each field the comparison goes like this:</p> <pre><code>(this.A == null && other.getA() == null) || (this.A != null && this.A.equals(other.getA())) </code></pre> <p>The result of this comparison is "anded" (&&) with the result of the comparison of the next field, and so on. The class goes on with a hashCode method that also uses all fields, some custom XML serialization methods and a method that returns a Axis-specific metadata object that describes the class and that also uses all field members.</p> <p>This class is never modified, so I just put a compiled version in the application classpath and the project compiled without issues. </p> <p>Now, I know that removing this single source file solved the problem. However, I have absolutely no idea as to why this particular class caused the problem. It will be nice to know; what can cause or causes a StackOverflowError during compilation of Java code? I think I'll post that question.</p> <p>For those interested:</p> <ul> <li>Windows XP SP2</li> <li>SUN's JDK 1.4.2_17</li> <li>Ant 1.7.0</li> </ul>

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