Method Area

• JVM has a method area, It is shared across all the Threas of the JVM.
• Method area stores compiled code.
• Method area is getting created at the JVM start time.
• Method ares stores class strucure
• -runtime constant pool
• -fields
• -method data
• -constructors etc
• The allocated memory for the method area is not required to be contiguous.
• This method area is either of fixed size or it can be enlarge as per the computation.
• The memory consumed by the method area is not garbage collected or it not be compacted after allocated.
• If required memory space is not available for method area then JVM will give your OutOfMemoryError.