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

If the openCursor() method doesn't throw an exception, the latter is fine. If it does, then you would definitely want to use the former. The reason being that any exception would be thrown to the caller. If the calling method isn't set up to handle that then there is an issue.