Comments on: Would you like using() in Java? http://almaer.com/blog/would-you-like-using-in-java blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: James Strachan http://almaer.com/blog/would-you-like-using-in-java/comment-page-1#comment-4362 James Strachan Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:51:54 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog2/would-you-like-using-in-java#comment-4362 When we first started Groovy we thought using might be interesting - it turns out using is really limited - its of little use. As Jon says, what you really need is closures. Then you can do real stuff (like JDBC queries or file piping) and easily handle the closing of multiple resources with complex exception semantics - yet to the developer it looks really simple & easy - even if the exception handling & resource closing logic can be kinda complex. http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+SQL When we first started Groovy we thought using might be interesting – it turns out using is really limited – its of little use.

As Jon says, what you really need is closures. Then you can do real stuff (like JDBC queries or file piping) and easily handle the closing of multiple resources with complex exception semantics – yet to the developer it looks really simple & easy – even if the exception handling & resource closing logic can be kinda complex.

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+SQL

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