GC

[Ramakrishnan Ponmudi]

myclass a = new myclass();
myclass b;
b = a;
a = null;
Runtime.getRuntime.gc();
which object (a,b) is first garbage collected.

[Rajeshwari Natarajan]

No object is garbage collected.
First off, there is only one object created at line 1.
Both the variables a and b refer to the same object. When u set a to null, b still refers to the object.
So the object can't be GC-ed.

[Jeroen Wenting]

and even if there were 2 objects you still could not tell whether any were being garbage collected and if both then in which order.
All you can do is suggest the JVM that now would be a good time to run the garbage collector, you cannot tell the GC what to do.