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From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
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On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:52 AM, Simon Edwards wrote:

> I've been testing out Jackrabbit this week, mostly trying to find out
> how scalable it is. One thing I tried doing was importing a a 45Mb XML
> file containing about 300,000 XML nodes.
>
> Using Session.importXML() blew the JVM's heap up of course, as it  
> tried
> to read everything before writing it to the DB. So I tried
> Workspace.importXML() expecting it to write the nodes directly through
> to the DB. Unfortunately it seems to act like Session.importXML() and
> try to read everything in first before writing to the DB. Of course  
> this
> also blew up the JVM (-X512m).
>
> Now, my question is; is this the correct behaviour for
> Workspace.importXML() to cache everything first in memory before
> writing?

Nope, that is definitely a bug.  Sounds like a good project.

....Roy