Exception occurred while instantiating a Java object (ColdFusion)

Question

I found this solution for adding a link to a pdf some time ago. It works like a charm, if used occasionally (ea reboot the server between each use). I've found out that for some reason (I'm not very experienced with java and iText) when trying to run this script a second time (without reboot), ColdFusion returns the error :

Object instantiation exception.

An exception occurred while instantiating a Java object. The class must not be an interface or an abstract class. Error: ''.

ColdFusion then indicates that the line causing the error seems to be at :

pdfReader = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader").init(inputPath);

Who knows more about this, has a solution or can explain why this happens? I think that somehow the java object created 'survives' inside java but off course doesn't survive inside CF.

Stack trace :

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
    at coldfusion.runtime.java.JavaProxy.CreateObject(JavaProxy.java:166)
    at coldfusion.runtime.java.JavaProxy.invoke(JavaProxy.java:80)
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invoke(CfJspPage.java:2360)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor16(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:549)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor17(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:547)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor45(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:543)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor25(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor49(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:512)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor51(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:509)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor53(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:461)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor58(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:213)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor129(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:207)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548._factor146(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:102)
    at cfSched_PushJobs2MultiPress32ecfm1907554548.runPage(E:\Inetpub\DashBoards\MultiPress\Sched_PushJobs2MultiPress3.cfm:1)
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:231)
    at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:416)
    at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
    at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:360)
    at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
    at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:94)
    at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70)
    at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:79)
    at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
    at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
    at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46)
    at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
    at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
    at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62)
    at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:200)
    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
    at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86)
    at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
    at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)
    at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)
    at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)
    at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
    at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
    at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
    at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
    at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
    at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
    at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
    at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Map failed
    at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:758)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.MappedRandomAccessFile.init(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.MappedRandomAccessFile.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PRTokeniser.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
    ... 48 more
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed
    at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map0(Native Method)
    at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:755)
    ... 55 more

Answer 1

That is not a huge file, but a lot depends on how much server memory is available and how much is being used by other processes. You might want to try using a RandomAccessFileOrArray for the reader and also buffer the writer output. See if that helps. Also, be sure you are closing the stamper and output stream.

// use random access when reading 
raf = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray").init(inputPath, false, true);
pdfReader = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader").init( raf, javacast("null", ""));
... 
// buffer the output
fos = createObject("java", "java.io.FileOutputStream");
outStream = createObject("java", "java.io.BufferedOutputStream").init( fos.init( outputPath ) );
pdfStamper = createObject("java", "com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper").init( pdfReader, outStream );

Answer 2

The error gives the problem. Go down to the first "Caused by" line:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed     at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map0(Native Method) 

The root cause is that you ran out of memory. Try increasing the available memory to your JVM.