Re: Good practice or not to close the file before System.exit(1)?

On 4/22/2011 9:31 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:


This is what I was thinking too. One way to implement this would be to
add some sort of extra value to Exceptions to allow lower level code to
pass up an exit status (note: this is getting way beyond what the OP
should care about, I'm just extending the idea of an exit status here to
include exceptions):

public interface ExceptionStatus {
   int getExitStatus();
}

....

public class Main {
   public static void main( String[] args ) {
     try {
        // ...whole program...
     } catch( Throwable t ) {
       // ...preform final processing... then:
       if( t instanceof ExceptionStatus ) {
          int status = ((ExceptionStatus)t).getExitStatus();
          System.exit( status );
     }
   }
}