Java “too many constants” JVM error

Question

I\'m developing an application that generates and compiles classes at runtime. This will sometimes create huge amounts of generated code.

With one of our test cases,

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file#The_constant_pool

The constant pool includes numbers, strings, method names, field names, class names, references to classes and methods...basically everything.

There can be at most 65536 of them.