java: how to declare final a variable that is initialized inside a try - catch block?

Question

I have a variable that is not supposed to change its value after it\'s been initialized, so I want to define it as a final variable.

the problem is that the variable

Answer 1

Can you try assigning it in both the catch and finally blocks? Like so:

Connection connTemp = null;
final Connection conn;
try {
    connTemp = getConn(prefix);
} catch (Exception e) {
    throw new DbHelperException("error opening connection", e);
} finally {
    closeConnection(conn);
}
conn = connTemp;