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Try With Resources vs Try-Catch [duplicate]

The main point of try-with-resources is to make sure resources are closed reliably without possibly losing information. When you don’t use try-with-resources there’s a potential pitfall called exception-masking. When code in a try block throws an exception, and the close method in the finally also throws an exception, the exception thrown by the try block … Read more

How should I use try-with-resources with JDBC?

I realize this was long ago answered but want to suggest an additional approach that avoids the nested try-with-resources double block. public List<User> getUser(int userId) { try (Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(myConnectionURL); PreparedStatement ps = createPreparedStatement(con, userId); ResultSet rs = ps.executeQuery()) { // process the resultset here, all resources will be cleaned up } catch (SQLException … Read more