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by AmrMostafa 4481 days ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned the departure of permgen space and the dreaded PermSize and MaxPermSize JVM arguments. While it was actually replaced with a new "metadata" space, the latter is mostly transparent, unlike the former. You can read more about the change here: http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-8-permgen-metaspace