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SwapList - Java paged list
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(http://swaplist.sourceforge.net)

Author: Cesar Vezga - vcesar@yahoo.com


SwapList implements a paged java.util.List interface that swaps to temporary disk files 
avoiding to use large quantities of memory.


* How does it works?
  
  SwapList swaps paged list into a file disk in order to keep memory usage low.
  
  Example:
            SwapList sl = new SwapList(500); // Creates an instance that allows a maximum of 500 items per swap page in memory
            
  By the example above, you can have a very big list, but will only allocate memory for 500 items. This will prevent out-of-memory error.
  
* Why should I use this instead of implementing my own paging logic?

  In case you are using a third party library that you can not modify, this might be handy.
  This was implemented because of this need, since a third party XML's library parser that was already implemented in a project
  was throwing out-of-memory exception when parsing big XMLs files. This is a fast solution that won't have a big impact in your implementation.