Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum : Java Agents, JNI and multi-value fields

I am running a 6.5 Domino server with the ini variable JavaVerboseJNI set to 1 so I can see the extra messages from the JNI mechanism in the JVM.

I have a simple scheduled java agent that updates multi-value fields (as well as single value fields) in a large number of documents. When the number of values in the multi-value fields exceeds a certain number, I begin to get the following messages in the server Log:

01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: ***ALERT: JNI local ref creation exceeded capacity (creating: 17, limit: 16).
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at lotus.domino.local.Document.NreplaceItemValue(Native Method)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at lotus.domino.local.Document.replaceItemValue(Unknown Source)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at org.navyfcu.ccs.AppMember.addToList(AppMember.java:402)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at org.navyfcu.ccs.AppMember.updateInvestigator(AppMember.java:287)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at org.navyfcu.ccs.AppMember.save(AppMember.java:206)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at org.navyfcu.ccs.DailyAssignment.NotesMain(DailyAssignment.java:190)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at lotus.domino.AgentBase.runNotes(Unknown Source)
01/14/2004 05:45:45 AM Agent error: at lotus.domino.NotesThread.run(NotesThread.java:208)

Depending on the size of the multi-value fields, the local ref creation can get up to 100 or so.

Does anyone know if this can cause problems and if so, is there a work-around when dealing with multi-value fields in Java.

Please note that I am recycling all objects after they are used, so this is not the issue. When I comment out the code that deals with the multi-value fields, I don't get these messages.

Thanks