How to deal with "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" error

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Published on 2008-09-17T22:13:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 4:53 UTC
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Recently I ran into this error in my web application:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

It's a typical Hibernate/JPA + IceFaces/JSF application running on Tomcat 6 and JDK 1.6.

Apparently this can occur after redeploying an application a few times.

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