You could use the jrockit VM for development, which doesn't have a perm gen space. Therefore this won't ever happen. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080011#4080011 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4080011