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Explain class metadata in the context of Java class loading.

Tests whether you know class metadata (method tables, field layouts, constant pool, runtime type info) is stored in Metaspace after the classloader parses the .class file -- separate from instance data on the heap -- and that too many dynamically generated classes can exhaust Metaspace.

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