Re: (File)OutputStreams and their usage

I'm dubious about the close() in the finally block not being wrapped in
a try-catch; if i get an IO error during loading, i want to see that,
not some subsequent exception that arose when trying to close the file.
I'd wrap it in a try-catch and log or ignore any exceptions.

There's actually a yet slicker way to write this method:

public void load(File file) throws IOException {
    OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(file) ;
    try {
        load(os) ;
    }
    finally {
        try {
            os.close() ;
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            // log or ignore
        }
    }
}

I'll add a question of my own: why are we loading from an *output* stream?