File Read

[debraj mallick]

hi all,
i am using the following code to read from a file and put the content into a arraylist

BufferedReader br = null;
List<Arts> arts = new ArrayList<Arts>(); // Arts is simple pojo
try {
 String line;
 br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:\\db\\arts.txt"));
 while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
   Arts art = new Arts(); 
   art.setFileData(line);
   arts.add(art);
 }
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}finally {
br.close();
}

the file "arts.txt" is about 70mb consisting of 760,985 lines. and i am having exception like:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space 

i am using -Xmx750m. Is there any way i can read the file and store the content of the file in a list?

any help would be great.

[Somnath Mallick]

What are you doing in that Arts class?

[debraj mallick]

hi Somnath,
class Arts consists of

private string fileData
//getters and setters

[Rob Spoor]

If you're storing 70MB worth of Strings in memory you probably need to increase the memory available to the JVM using the -Xmx JVM flag.