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( Excep         


        

Answer 1

After lots of consideration, I find the following code best:

MyResource resource = null;
try {
    resource = new MyResource();
    resource.doSomethingFancy();
    resource.close(); 
    resource = null;  
} finally {
    closeQuietly(resource)
}

void closeQuietly(MyResource a) {
    if (a!=null)
        try {
             a.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
             //ignore
        }
}

That code guarantees following:

1. The resource is freed when the code finished
2. Exceptions thrown when closing the resource are not consumed without processing them.
3. The code does not try to close the resource twice, no unnecessary exception will be created.