GCube Java 8 migration guide

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This page collects the guidelines for the migration of D4Science infrastructure and the gCUbe software from Java 7 to Java 8. It also collects common issues (and their solution) experienced during the migration as reference for all gCube developers.

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JVM memory management changed in Java 8: concept of PermGen space has been replaced by Metaspace. As consequence, startup options used in Java 7 (e.g. "-XX:MaxPermSize") rae not valid anymore in JVM 8.

TODO: not enough results to provide guidelines and instructions