size of post data? ways of sending large data?

what's the maximum size of post data. because i send a bunch of data, for example, from an 100*30 grid. only a maximum of 50-60 rows can be sent to my Action, above which the java stops execution at ActionServlet, throws OutOfMemoryException, and my Action never gets called. so i chose another way, formed an xml string and sent it to my struts Action. but xml parsing, i think, is a performance overhead. is there any other way by which large amount of data can be sent...Ajax? but still my primary question is what's the size of post data. very urgent, please

have a nice day.
krishna prasad g

Originally posted by krisp prasad:
very urgent, please

Please read this.

If you are running out of memory, changing the data format isn't going to solve anything. You need to give more memory to the JVM.

What happens to the data after your application gets it? Does it all need to be in memory at one time or can you process it line by line.

The "Action" approach is really designed for form data processing where the memory requirements for keeping the entire POST is not a problem.

Bill