The Java 7 try-with-resources Statement PRO

As of Java 7 we can code a try statement that declares one or more resources. Each resource is an object that must be closed after the program is finished. The try-with-resources statement ensures that each resource is closed at the end of the statement. Each object considered as a resource must be instantiated from a class that implements java.lang.AutoCloseable.

package com.abelski.samples;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

public class TryResourcesDemo
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		try
		{
			String str = readTextFile("bb.txt");
			System.out.println(str);
		}
		catch(IOException e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	static String readTextFile(String path) throws IOException 
	{
		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
		try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path))) 
		{
			String str = null;
			while((str = br.readLine())!=null)
			{
				builder.append(str).append("\n");				
			}
		}
		return builder.toString();
	}
}

The following video clips shoes the execution of this code sample and explains it.