Does Java support RAII/deterministic destruction?

Question

It\'s been at least 5 years since I worked with Java, and back then, any time you wanted to allocate an object that needed cleaning up (e.g. sockets, DB handles), you had to

Answer 1

The approach I take is to use a layered product (sometime a simple static method) which takes care of the resource allocation. You don't want this sort of resource allocation littering your program.

There are plenty of libraries which do this. It not something you should have to worry about in most cases.