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Why finally block is not executed completely?

 
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In above program finally block does not executes completely.
Line 8 is not executed.
But in java finally block always executes whether exception is thrown
or not.
Then why above finally blocks terminates incompletely and line 8
is never executed.

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you got the finaly calling a method,m();, that throws another error.
so the System.out.println("finally"); //line 8 is never executed.

ps: get rid off the m(); in the finally block then it will be completed.
[ August 09, 2006: Message edited by: Firman Drage ]
 
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you have to handle the exception within finally block other wise it will come out of the block when it will encounter the exception.
public class j
{
public static void main(String ar[])throws Exception
{
try{
m();
}
finally
{
try{

m();

}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println ("Exception is handled here");
}
System.out.println ("inside finally block");
}
}
static void m()throws Exception
{
throw new Exception();
}
}
 
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Hi Gowher,

Originally posted by gowher amin naik:
[CODE]
But in java finally block always executes whether exception is thrown
or not.



In your code example the Exception is occurring inside the finally block. The Exception is not caught and goes up to main and then the program exits. So the program never gets to finish the finally block. If you call m() from inside the first try block (comment the second m() ) you will see finally being printed and an exception thrown (because there is no catch clause).
I hope this helps.

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u have to handle the exception inside finally block

public class j
{
public static void main(String ar[])throws Exception
{
try{
m();
}
finally
{
try{

m();

}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println ("Exception is handled here");
}
System.out.println ("inside finally bloc");
}
}
static void m()throws Exception
{
throw new Exception();
}
}
 
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Hi Gowher,

Your finally Block has a call to a method which inturn throws an exception. This exception is not caught . Any uncaught exception is handled by the default handler provided by the java run-time system. This prints the exception and terminates the program and the function you called in the finally block is never returned. so whatever you do after the call to the fucntion m() will not be executed.

just add a try-catch in method m as given below

static void m()throws Exception{

try {
throw new Exception();
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Caught");
}
}
 
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Hi Gowher,

Your finally Block has a call to a method which inturn throws an exception. This exception is not caught . Any uncaught exception is handled by the default handler provided by the java run-time system. This prints the exception and terminates the program and the function you called in the finally block is never returned. so whatever you do after the call to the fucntion m() will not be executed.

just add a try-catch in method m as given below

static void m()throws Exception{

try {
throw new Exception();
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Caught");
}
}
 
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