How to know about OutOfMemory or StackOverflow errors ahead of time

Question

In Java, is there a way to know that a StackOverflow error or OutOfMemory exception may happen soon?

The OutOfMemory exception m

Answer 1

Anticipating Out of Memory Errors

I'm surprised I didn't see this mentioned in the other posts, but you can use ManagementFactory in Java 5/6 to get at a lot of the memory usage information.

Look at the platform mbean server page for more information on detecting low memory conditions in Java. I believe you can setup notifiers to call code when memory usage reaches a certain threshold.