RAII in Java… is resource disposal always so ugly?

Question

I just played with Java file system API, and came down with the following function, used to copy binary files. The original source came from the Web, but I added try/catch/f

Answer 1

Yes, that's how java works. There is control inversion - the user of the object has to know how to clean up the object instead of the object itself cleaning up after itself. This unfortunately leads to a lot of cleanup code scattered throughout your java code.

C# has the "using" keyword to automatically call Dispose when an object goes out of scope. Java has no such thing.