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

It looks like you could use the MemoryPoolMXBean and set the collection usage threshold to 1. This should give you a notification any time the gc runs and there is still at least a byte of memory in use.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/management/MemoryPoolMXBean.html

It looks like this doesn't work with all garbage collectors, though.