If I am building a projecting using:
mvn install
I see the following:
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] Failure executing javac, but could not parse the error: The system is out of resources. Consult the following stack trace for details. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space I'm not sure where I would be updating my java options?
I'm running this on ubuntu.
If you don't like to be dependent on somebody's environment you may specify to fork compiler plugin and allocate enough memory to it.
I suggest you actually do this in the <pluginManagment> section of your parent POM project
<build> ... <pluginManagment> ... <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.2</version> <configuration> ... <!-- Memory management --> <fork>true</fork> <meminitial>128m</meminitial> <maxmem>512m</maxmem> ... </configuration> </plugin> ... </pluginManagment> ... </build> 
Tweak your maven options. Generally this is set in /etc/mavenrc, ${HOME}/.mavenrc, or your Windows environmental properties dialog box.
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M" has worked for some, you might need to bump the numbers up (depending on your circumstance)
The first option "-Xmx512M" configures maximum memory, while the second option "-XX:MaxPermSize=512M" allows PermGen space to grow as large as (in this case) the maximum memory.
