HighFile-scopeJava Plug & play

Use try-with-resources for resource management

Use try-with-resources for Closeable/AutoCloseable objects to guarantee deterministic cleanup.

Why this matters

Prevents resource leaks of streams/sockets and simplifies finally blocks.

Side-by-side examples engineers can pattern-match during review.

Avoid

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(p));
String s = br.readLine(); // no close

Prefer

try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(p))) {
  String s = br.readLine();
}

Bad

new FileInputStream(p)

Good

try (InputStream in = new FileInputStream(p)) { /* ... */ }

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