The C# using statement compared to Java 7 try/with by Alex van Beek

Yesterday Java SE 7 was released. Last night I had the opportunity to play with some of it’s new features, including Java 7’s new “resource management” syntax. Of course, we have had this feature in C# for quite some time, but I was actually curious to see whether the Java people learned from the C# implementation and thus implemented it in a better way. Much to my surprise ;), they did. Let me elaborate……