AutoLock in Java - how to?

Question

What is the best way to free resources (in this case unlock the ReadWriteLock) when leaving the scope ? How to cover all possible ways (return, break, exceptions etc)?

Answer 1

A try/finally block is the closest thing that you can get to this behaviour:

Lock l = new Lock();
l.lock();  // Call the lock before calling try.
try {
    // Do some processing.
    // All code must go in here including break, return etc.
    return something;
} finally {
    l.unlock();
}