the catch-block completes abruptly (by throwing any throwable, or using a control flow statement) More generally, the java language guarantees that a finally block is executed before the try …

Aug 6, 2010 · A finally block makes sure that however you exit that block (modulo a few ways of aborting the whole process explicitly), it will get executed. That's important for deterministic …

The finally block contains lines of code that should be executed regardless whether an exception has been caught or not. Even if you decide to stop code running in that method.

After executing the finally block the try block returns 2, rather than returning 12, because this return statement is not executed again. If you will debug this code in Eclipse then you'll get a …

May 18, 2010 · Within the catch block you can respond to the thrown exception. This block is executed only if there is an unhandled exception and the type matches the one or is subclass …

Sep 23, 2010 · Note that applicable catch or finally blocks includes: When a new exception is thrown in a catch block, the new exception is still subject to that catch's finally block, if any. …

Mar 13, 2012 · The purpose of a finally block is to ensure that code gets run in three circumstances which would not very cleanly be handled using "catch" blocks alone: If code …

May 7, 2013 · An exception is thrown in the try block and there's no matching catch block in the method that can catch the exception. In this scenario, the call to the method ends, and the …

A very common case where this happens is java.sql.Connection.close(). As an aside, I am guessing that the code sample you have used is merely an example, but be careful of putting …

The return method in the finally block was basically stopping the exception that happened in the try block from propagating up even though it wasn't caught. Like others have said, while it is …