What’s the purpose of try-with-resources statements?

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It was introduced because of some resources used in Java (like SQL connections or streams) being difficult to be handled properly; as an example, in java 6 to handle a InputStream properly you had to do something like:

InputStream stream = new MyInputStream(...);
try {
    // ... use stream
} catch(IOException e) {
   // handle exception
} finally {
    try {
        if(stream != null) {
            stream.close();
        }
    } catch(IOException e) {
        // handle yet another possible exception
    }
}

Do you notice that ugly double try? now with try-with-resources you can do this:

try (InputStream stream = new MyInputStream(...)){
    // ... use stream
} catch(IOException e) {
   // handle exception
}

and close() is automatically called, if it throws an IOException, it will be supressed (as specified in the Java Language Specification 14.20.3) . Same happens for java.sql.Connection

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