When would you put a semicolon after a method closing brace?

Question

I\'ve been programming in Java for a while, and I\'ve just come across this syntax for the first time:

public Object getSomething(){return something;}; 
         


        

Answer 1

A semicolon is interpreted as an empty statement, which is permissible whereever a statement is permissible.

EmptyStatement:
 ;

As Java specification says

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-14.html#jls-14.6