garbage collector

[feroz muhamed]

do we can use garbage collector explicitly in our program.if yes please give more details.

[chi Lin]

you can use System.gc() to trigger garbage collection.
[ December 31, 2003: Message edited by: chi Lin ]

[Dirk Schreckmann]

You cannot force garbage collection in Java. You can request that the garbage collector run, using the code in chi's example above, but this does not guarantee that the garbage collector will run.