Garbage collection notification?

Question

I\'d like to register a callback with the JVM so I know when garbage collection is happening. Is there any way to do this?

EDIT: I want to do this so I can log out

Answer 1

As of Java7u4, you can get notifications from the GarbageCollectorMXBean. See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/jre/api/management/extension/com/sun/management/GarbageCollectionNotificationInfo.html