Does finally always execute in Java? I have a try/catch block with returns inside it. Will the finally block be called? For example: try { something(); return success; } catch (Exception e) { return failure; } finally { System.out.println("i don't know if this will get printed out."); } I know I can just type this in an see what happens (which is what I'm about to do, actually) but when I googled for answers nothing came up, so I figured I'd throw this up