Re: BufferedInputStream -- does not recommend "close()"?

  The operation ?close()? is mentioned in the class documentation

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/BufferedInputStream.html

  But nowhere does it recommend to use ?close()?.

  I had expected the constructor documentation to
  say something like

      ?Whenever an object of this class has been constructed
      successfully it needs to be closed at some instant in the
      future to avoid resource leaks, because only by closing
      all resource allocated by the construction will be
      released again.?

  But this is not so.

  The tutorial also does not recommend close:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/buffers.html

  I used to believe that closing was important.
  Why is it not recommended in the documentation nor the tutorial?

  (When insisting on the use of ?close()?, I'd
  like to have some evidence for its necessity.)

Closes this input stream and releases any system resources associated with the stream.