find which type of garbage collector is running

Question

Post JSE 5 ergonomics is intended to automatically select the appropriate type of garbage collector for you (among other things).

I would like to know if there is an

Answer 1

Here's some info about how to programmatically get GC info, but it looks like it may need the name of the GC beforehand. Troublesome.

Edit: try ManagementFactory.getGarbageCollectorMXBeans() and iterate through the returned list. One of these will be active.