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Hi all, If I open a PrintWriter in a servlet by calling res.getWriter() and output all my HTML back to the client, should I explicitly close it by calling out.close()? I thought yes (I even put it in a finally block), but another developer says no. Which is correct? Thanks, Bill
There is no need for explixitly closing the PrintWriter object as once all the response has been send,the Http connection closes and the stram gets closed.But it's a good coding practice to close all the resources you have opened in the program before you exit bye sam
To some degree this depends on the servlet container. It's usually safe to leave the stream open, as the container has to account for that and try to flush and close it. Almost all "real" servlet containers also work quite happily of you do close the stream, but some just wrap the socket stream and closing that would potentially cause it to fail to flush your final output. As a general rule, for ultimate portability it's probably best to flush but not close the stream. If you are using one of the well-known containers it shouldn't matter.
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