Under the reasoning that cleaner code is better code, the semicolon at the end of a try-with-resources construct should be omitted because it can be omitted. == Noncompliant Code Example ---- try (ByteArrayInputStream b = new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[10]); // ignored; this one's required Reader r = new InputStreamReader(b);) // Noncompliant { //do stuff } ---- == Compliant Solution ---- try (ByteArrayInputStream b = new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[10]); Reader r = new InputStreamReader(b)) { //do stuff } ----