Question

I have written a method which writes an object to file.
I used generics so also an object derived from Object can be written (I could also accept a parameter of type Object, but this to be more clear).

public static <T extends Object> void write(T item,String path) 
throws FileNotFoundException,IOException
{
    ObjectOutputStream os;
    Object obj=item;
    os=new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(path));
    os.writeObject(obj);
    os.close();
}

So the doubt is about the pragmatic: is correct to leave the exceptions go without handling them?because I have also written a second version of the method:

public static <T extends Object> void nothrow_write(T item,String path) 
{
    ObjectOutputStream os;
    Object obj=item;
    try
    {
        os=new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(path));
        os.writeObject(obj);
        os.close();
    }
    catch(FileNotFoundException e)
    {
        System.out.println(e);
    }
    catch(IOException e)
    {
        System.out.println(e);      
    }
}

Which method is more pragmatically correct?
The problem of the first one is that if the exception is thrown, the stream remains opened.

Answer 1

public static void write(Object item, String path) 
  throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
{
  ObjectOutputStream os = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(path));
  try {
    os.writeObject(obj);
  } finally {
    os.close();
  }
}