About release connection in finally block

[Savagearts]

Hi Spring guys:
A Sun's engineer in our company told us that the code in finally block may not be executed immediately in high volume conditions. The test engineers in our company told us that they found that the connection may not be released immdiately too when the connection is closed in finally block (The code is our a utility class that may act as the same as spring's JdbcTemplate). I can not believe this, so i checked you guys' code "JdbcTemplate". I found that you guys do the same thing as me: to release resouce in finally block

	public Object execute(final StatementCallback action) {
		Connection con = DataSourceUtils.getConnection(getDataSource());
		Statement stmt = null;
		try {
			Connection conToUse = con;
			if (this.nativeJdbcExtractor != null &&
					this.nativeJdbcExtractor.isNativeConnectionNecessaryForNativeStatements()) {
				conToUse = this.nativeJdbcExtractor.getNativeConnection(con);
			}
			stmt = conToUse.createStatement();
			DataSourceUtils.applyTransactionTimeout(stmt, getDataSource());
			Statement stmtToUse = stmt;
			if (this.nativeJdbcExtractor != null) {
				stmtToUse = this.nativeJdbcExtractor.getNativeStatement(stmt);
			}
			Object result = action.doInStatement(stmtToUse);
			SQLWarning warning = stmt.getWarnings();
			throwExceptionOnWarningIfNotIgnoringWarnings(warning);
			return result;
		}
		catch (SQLException ex) {
			throw getExceptionTranslator().translate("executing StatementCallback", null, ex);
		}
		finally {
			JdbcUtils.closeStatement(stmt);
			DataSourceUtils.closeConnectionIfNecessary(con, getDataSource());
		}
	}

Can you guys give me some test results about this. And did you guys come with the same problems like our test engineer? Thanks.
Regards
Eisen

[Savagearts]

BTW:
The engineer told us that the return clause can not be written in try {} block in high volume condition, otherwise this style code may incur problems too!
He suggests that the code should look as following:

try{
//close your resource
}catch(Exception e){
//close your resource
}finally{
}

return result;

[Andreas Senft]

What exactly are high volume conditions?

And, more important, is this proposition somehow backed up (e.g. in the VM or language specification)?

If not, I would not spend too much trust on such assertions. Even when they come from an engineer from Sun.

Just my 2 cents,
Andreas

[Colin Sampaleanu]

I think the Sun engineer should read the language spec. It's very clear on this, and I've never heard anything of this nature. Additionally, a lot of code out there right now would be broken if this was the case...