Old JaxB and JDK8 Metaspace OutOfMemory Issue

Question

We are working on a business application (1 million+ LOC) developed since 10+ years. While switching to JDK8 we get an issue with the metaspace of JDK8. This seems to be rel

Answer 1

JAXBContext.newInstance() should be used once to create a context for your class to unmarshall. It will use up your permgen or metaspace otherwise.