Java Exception Handling - Style

Question

Historically I have always written my Exception handling code like this:

    Cursor cursor = null;
    try {
        cursor = db.openCursor(null, null);
             


        

Answer 1

There is really nothing wrong in doing :

Cursor cursor = db.openCursor(null, null);  
  try {  
     // do stuff  
   } finally {  
      try {  
        cursor.close();  
     } catch( SomeOther so ){}  
 }