title: Java Heap Space Error while sending data more than 12 MB over SOAP using Webservices
body: <p>I am trying to send an object of 15 MB from Flex to Java using webservice. My server is tomcat. I have set memory both in Eclipse and tomcat as <code>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m</code>
  But I am getting this error:-</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver  - Java heap space
  java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCUtil.invokeServiceClass(RPCUtil.java:194)
      at org.apache.axis2.rpc.receivers.RPCMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(RPCMessageReceiver.java:102)
      at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.invokeBusinessLogic(AbstractInOutMessageReceiver.java:40)
      at org.apache.axis2.receivers.AbstractMessageReceiver.receive(AbstractMessageReceiver.java:114)
      at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:173)
      at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPTransportUtils.processHTTPPostRequest(HTTPTransportUtils.java:167)
      at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:142)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:849)
      at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
      at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:454)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
  Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
      at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Unknown Source)
      at java.lang.String.&lt;init&gt;(Unknown Source)
      at com.mysql.jdbc.SingleByteCharsetConverter.toString
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>