An I/O stream is an operating-system resource: a file descriptor, a socket, a memory buffer. An unclosed stream is a resource leak. In a large application thousands of unclosed files can exhaust the OS and cause a crash. Java provides automatic resource management through try-with-resources.
Evolution of Resource Management
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