JVM version for AS

This short commentary is for a bug that has bitten me twice in recent ADF projects.

In the Oracle Application Server 10g, in the latest patch level, the default JVM that is used is 1.5.0_06-b05).

If you are getting something in your logs that looks like a compiler error, you might upgrade your JVM to 1.5.0_10 or above (staying with 1.5, I suppose). Oracle is aware that this gets rid of this problem. But since there is no AS 11g yet, my ADF development is still 10g.

On two different recent projects I have had problems. Both times in the logs it looks something like "...Current CompilerTask: opto: 602 oracle.sql.NUMBER.toBytes(Ljava/lang/String;I)[B (1034 bytes)..." The java VM would give an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION and restart itself which ended whatever we were doing. There were also indications that something called "PSYoungGen ...fromSpace" was all used up. The sysadmin here tried various adjustments to memory usage but none of them really helped much.

Hope this entry helps someone.