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>>Don't want to answer for Plamen, but you didn't get it right. You have to initialize all variables prior to try/finally block.
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>That's not my understanding. The idea of TRY is to try to initialize things to see if they work and if they don't catch them. I know I have to declare them prior to TRY but it is different from initializing. Perhaps Plamen or Bonnie will correct me or you :-)

I actually meant declaration too.