title: How to fix "The code of method .. is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit"?
body: <p>I have the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static void main(String[] args) {
      try {
          String[] studentnames = {
              /* this is an array of 9000 strings... */
          };
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following error when trying to compile this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>The code of method main(String[]) is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit
  </code></pre>