title: Is it possible to override the default settings for the maximum heap size for any Java applet?
body: <p>I am using a piece of java software written by someone else, but it keeps running out of memory. I have tried to allocate more memory at initialisation of the program (with -Xmx), but it doesn't seem to have any effect.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible that the writers of the software have hardcoded the maximum heap size, and that therefore the extra memory I'm allocating at initialisation doesn't have any effect? Or should -Xmx always work?</p>