Wait for Garbage Collection of a specific object

Question

I was just digging around in the commons-io library and found this:

Keeps track of files awaiting deletion, and deletes them when
an associated marker object is recla         


        

Answer 1

Not sure if this really answers your question, but the finalize() method of an object is called prior to its resources being reclaimed.

Edit: Which means that you can send a message to another object to alert it, or something along those lines.