Java resource closing

Question

I\'m writing an app that connect to a website and read one line from it. I do it like this:

try{
        URLConnection connection = new URL(\"www.example.com         


        

Answer 1

I think it will be better to place the closing methods in the finally block

Yes, always. Because an exception might occur and resources aren't released/closed properly.

You only need to close the most outer reader because it will be responsible for closing any enclosing readers.

Yes, it's ugly... for now. I think there are plans for an automatic resource management in Java.