throws Exception in finally blocks

Question

Is there an elegant way to handle exceptions that are thrown in finally block?

For example:

try {   // Use the resource. } catch( Exception ex ) {   // Problem with the resource. } finally {    try{      resource.close();    }    catch( Exception ex ) {      // Could not close the resource?    } } 

How do you avoid the try/catch in the finally block?

Answer 1

I usually do it like this:

try {   // Use the resource. } catch( Exception ex ) {   // Problem with the resource. } finally {   // Put away the resource.   closeQuietly( resource ); } 

Elsewhere:

protected void closeQuietly( Resource resource ) {   try {     if (resource != null) {       resource.close();     }   } catch( Exception ex ) {     log( "Exception during Resource.close()", ex );   } }