Why doesn't java.io.File have a close method?

Question

While java.io.RandomAccessFile does have a close() method java.io.File doesn\'t. Why is that? Is the file closed automatically on fina

Answer 1

Say suppose, you have

File f  = new File("SomeFile");
f.length();

You need not close the Files, because its just the representation of a path.

You should always consider to close only reader/writers and in fact streams.