method main(String[]) is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit

[samu]

Hello,
I have programmed a programm which is scanning a DinA4 paper, storing the values in a Matrix and printing it out again with a pen.
Now, after adding some lines to my program it shows me this error in Eclipse:
The code of method main(String[]) is exceeding the 65535 bytes limit
Does someone of you have any idea how to solve this problem ?

Actually I'm thinking of splitting the programm into two parts, but is this possible, and what is with my Variables/Matrix in the program then? How do I get them public, because both parts of the program will need them

Thanks in advance

[skoehler]

Your main-method is very long. Shorten it. Split the task that the main method solves in several smaller ones, and implement a method each.
Now you may argue, that your main method is not THAT long. You didn't provide any code, but an educated guess would be, that you initialize a rather huge array in the main method. Well, then my comment above doesn't really apply. One thing you should know about Java, is that array inialization generated byte-code. Hence, you easily exceed the 64KB limit for a method, even though it does not contain to much code. Don't initialize arrays like that. Save the data in a file, and upload the file along with the NXT. Then load that file into an array. Alternatively, you can encode the data into a Java String (which is somewhat tricky due to when the \uXXXX escapes are replaced), and then convert the String to the array you intend to create.

[samu]

Thank you for help.
The program was very long, and i already tried to split it in parts, but my main problem was the variables, which were not public, so i couldn share them between parts of the prgm. Now a friend helped me (the declaration has to be before main()) and he also gave me a little more help (now i knpw | ,& and << ) which will shorten my prgm very much (instead of 12000lines there will be perhaps 5000 Only)