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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2009, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
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+ *
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+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+
+package java.lang;
+
+/**
+ * A resource that must be closed when it is no longer needed.
+ *
+ * @author Josh Bloch
+ * @since 1.7
+ */
+public interface AutoCloseable {
+ /**
+ * Closes this resource, relinquishing any underlying resources.
+ * This method is invoked automatically by the {@code
+ * try}-with-resources statement.
+ *
+ * <p>Classes implementing this method are strongly encouraged to
+ * be declared to throw more specific exceptions (or no exception
+ * at all, if the close cannot fail).
+ *
+ * <p>Note that unlike the {@link java.io.Closeable#close close}
+ * method of {@link java.io.Closeable}, this {@code close} method
+ * is <em>not</em> required to be idempotent. In other words,
+ * calling this {@code close} method more than once may have some
+ * visible side effect, unlike {@code Closeable.close} which is
+ * required to have no effect if called more than once.
+ *
+ * However, while not required to be idempotent, implementers of
+ * this interface are strongly encouraged to make their {@code
+ * close} methods idempotent.
+ *
+ * @throws Exception if this resource cannot be closed
+ */
+ void close() throws Exception;
+}
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