Is a finally block without a catch block a java anti-pattern?

Question

I just had a pretty painful troubleshooting experience in troubleshooting some code that looked like this:

try {
   doSomeStuff()
   doMore()
} finally {
            


        

Answer 1

Not at all.

What's wrong is the code inside the finally.

Remember that finally will always get executed, and is just risky ( as you have just witnessed ) to put something that may throw an exception there.