Java try-finally return design question

Question

In Java, a try { ... } finally { ... } is executed somewhat unintuitively to me. As illustrated in another question, Does finally always execute in Java?, if you have a retu

Answer 1

Though The finally block is made for closing resources, and a return statement is generally not supposed to be there, and Eclipse warns that "finally block does not complete normally", I found in some circumstances a "finally return" is still desirable.

ResponseType response = new ResponseType();
try{
    //set some properties of the response object.
    response.setStatus(1);
    //return response;
}catch (Exception e){
    //Some other properties of the response object according to the exception.
    response.setStatus(0);
    //return response;
}finally{
    return response;
}

If I don't put the return clause in the finally block, I would have to repeat it in try and catch blocks and the current code is a little clearer.