Just a brain dump of various tutorials for hacking around with Java8.
from http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2014/05/java-8-features-tutorial.html New Features in Java runtime (JVM) The PermGen space is gone and has been replaced with Metaspace (JEP 122). The JVM options -XX:PermSize and -XX:MaxPermSize have been replaced by -XX:MetaSpaceSize and -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize respectively.
Java8 cheatsheet - http://www.java8.org/