finally in exception handling

Question

What exactly does a finally block in exception handling perform?

Answer 1

It executes no matter if you get into the catch block or not, meaning that is a great place for disposing of objects and doing other cleanups.

Answer 2

finally keyword is used just to make sure that code present in finally block must execute in all circumstances irrespective of exception occurances.

for eg:

 try{
     }
     catch(Exception e){
     }
      finally{
             System.out.print("finally executed");
            }

Note: In above case finally will always execute.