I have implemented a parser pool (that is using the DOMParser via
DocumentBuilder and DocumentBuilderFactory) java 1.4.2 and it seems to
me that based on the memory profile that DOMParser was not meant to be
pooled and leaks memory (int[] variables are not cleaned up).

My pool is using the DocumentBuilder API to get the parser instance
and then caching that in the pool.  There is no "reset" method, which
was introduced in java 1.5 and that indicates that it should be called
to "allow the reuse of existing DocumentBuilders" - but this method
doesn't exist in 1.4.2.

So is this a known limitation in 1.4.2  or has anyone else had issues
with memory leak "OutOfMemory" errors when using parser pools?

Thanks,

-BY