Summary

Remove the deprecated finalize methods of FileInputStream and FIleOutputStream.

Problem

The finalize methods of FileInputStream and FileOutputStream were deprecated for removal in JDK 9 and should be removed.

Solution

The finalize methods are removed.

The java.lang.ref.Cleaner has been implemented since JDK 9 as the primary mechanism to close FileDescriptors no longer reachable from FileInputStream and FileOutputStreams.

Previously, finalize would call the close method. The recommendation has been to explicitly call close or use try-with-resources to close files.

With this change the FileInputStream or FileOutputStream close method will no longer be called when a FileInputstream or FileOutputStream is found to be unreachable.

Specification

java.io.FileInputStream removes:

protected void finalize() throws IOException {}

java.io.FileOutputStream removes:

protected void finalize() throws IOException {}