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/**
* Platform-specific management interface for a garbage collector
* which performs collections in cycles.
*
* <p> This platform extension is only available to the garbage
* collection implementation that supports this extension.
*
* @author Mandy Chung
* @since 1.5
*/
public interface GarbageCollectorMXBean
/**
* Returns the GC information about the most recent GC.
* This method returns a {@link GcInfo}.
* If no GC information is available, <tt>null</tt> is returned.
* The collector-specific attributes, if any, can be obtained
* via the {@link CompositeData CompositeData} interface.
* <p>
* <b>MBeanServer access:</b>
* The mapped type of <tt>GcInfo</tt> is <tt>CompositeData</tt>
* with attributes specified in {@link GcInfo#from GcInfo}.
*
* @return a <tt>GcInfo</tt> object representing
* the most GC information; or <tt>null</tt> if no GC
* information available.
*/
}