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A recent JavaWorld Community forum message (Stack Overflow after instantiating new object) reminded me that the basics of the StackOverflowError are not always understood well by people new to Java. Fortunately, the StackOverflowError is one of the easier of the runtime errors to debug and in this blog posting I will demonstrate how easy it often is to diagnose a StackOverflowError. Note that the potential for stack overflow is not limited to Java.