Transfer of control in a finally block throws away any exception. The following code does not throw RuntimeException -- it is lost.
public static void doSomething() { try { //Normally you would have code that doesn't explicitly appear //to throw exceptions so it would be harder to see the problem. throw new RuntimeException(); } finally { return; } } public static void doSomething() { try { //Normally you would have code that doesn't explicitly appear //to throw exceptions so it would be harder to see the problem. throw new RuntimeException(); } finally { return; } } From http://jamesjava.blogspot.com/2006/03/dont-return-in-finally-clause.html
