Thread: finally block execution

public class HelloWorld{
     static int a;
     public static void main(String []args){
        System.out.println("Hello World");
        HelloWorld h =new HelloWorld();
        a = h.foo();
        System.out.println(a);
     }
 
 
     int foo()
     {
     try{
     throw new Exception();
     }
     catch(Exception e){
 
     System.out.println("catch");
      return 9;
 
     }
 
 
     finally{System.out.println(a);return 10;}
} }

When I ran the above code output was:
Hello World
catch
0
10
Now i have a doubt that does the return in catch is executed first or the finally block executed first??

Hi peter_parker
I do not understand what you are asking.
What do you expect the output to be?

Originally Posted by jps

Hi peter_parker
I do not understand what you are asking.
What do you expect the output to be?

I want to know that which block executed first catch or finally..I mean to say that after return in catch the jvm should leave the block without executing finally.Then why does value of a is 10 and not 9?