Answer by Dan R. for How would we use try finally for Lock.lock and Lock.unlock
The other respondents are right: you should always use try/finally.Regarding whether (A) or (B) is correct, Sun seems to recommend (B) in the JavaDoc of ReentrantReadWriteLock (search for "finally" to...
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It's good defensive programming. If your code ever changes so that the body throws an exception for any reason whatsoever (including, for example, OutOfMemoryError), you'll be glad you didn't leave the...
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Consider the following code. In order to prevent IndexOutOfBoundsException while calling listIterator, we use a reader lock to retrieve the index based iteartor, and writer lock else where when write...
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