A bit of tidying here and there.

src/main/java/com/threerings/getdown/data/Digest.java

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import com.samskivert.io.StreamUtil;
 import com.samskivert.text.MessageUtil;
 import com.samskivert.util.StringUtil;
 
@@ -104,8 +105,7 @@ public class Digest
         StringBuilder data = new StringBuilder();
         PrintWriter pout = null;
         try {
-            pout = new PrintWriter(
-                    new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output), "UTF-8"));
+            pout = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output), "UTF-8"));
 
             // compute and append the MD5 digest of each resource in the list
             for (Resource rsrc : resources) {
@@ -126,9 +126,7 @@ public class Digest
             pout.println(DIGEST_FILE + " = " + StringUtil.hexlate(md.digest(contents)));
 
         } finally {
-            if (pout != null) {
-                pout.close();
-            }
+            StreamUtil.close(pout);
         }
     }
 

src/main/java/com/threerings/getdown/tools/Digester.java

@@ -82,8 +82,7 @@ public class Digester
         File inputFile = new File(appdir, Digest.DIGEST_FILE);
         File signatureFile = new File(appdir, Digest.DIGEST_FILE + Application.SIGNATURE_SUFFIX);
 
-        FileInputStream storeInput = null;
-        FileInputStream dataInput = null;
+        FileInputStream storeInput = null, dataInput = null;
         FileOutputStream signatureOutput = null;
         try {
             // initialize the keystore
@@ -109,9 +108,9 @@ public class Digester
             signatureOutput.write(signed.getBytes("utf8"));
 
         } finally {
-            StreamUtil.close(storeInput);
-            StreamUtil.close(dataInput);
             StreamUtil.close(signatureOutput);
+            StreamUtil.close(dataInput);
+            StreamUtil.close(storeInput);
         }
     }
 }

src/main/java/com/threerings/getdown/tools/JarDiffPatcher.java

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
 import java.util.jar.JarFile;
 import java.util.jar.JarOutputStream;
 
+import com.samskivert.io.StreamUtil;
 import com.threerings.getdown.util.ProgressObserver;
 
 /**
@@ -43,15 +44,12 @@ public class JarDiffPatcher implements JarDiffCodes
      *
      * @throws IOException if any problem occurs during patching.
      */
-    public void patchJar (String jarPath, String diffPath, File target,
-                          ProgressObserver observer)
+    public void patchJar (String jarPath, String diffPath, File target, ProgressObserver observer)
         throws IOException
     {
-        File oldFile = new File(jarPath);
-        File diffFile = new File(diffPath);
+        File oldFile = new File(jarPath), diffFile = new File(diffPath);
         JarOutputStream jos = null;
-        JarFile oldJar = null;
-        JarFile jarDiff = null;
+        JarFile oldJar = null, jarDiff = null;
         try {
             jos = new JarOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(target));
             oldJar = new JarFile(oldFile);
@@ -163,14 +161,13 @@ public class JarDiffPatcher implements JarDiffCodes
             updateObserver(observer, currentEntry, size);
 
         } finally {
-            jos = closeStream(jos);
-            oldJar = closeFile(oldJar);
-            jarDiff = closeFile(jarDiff);
+            StreamUtil.close(jos);
+            closeFile(oldJar);
+            closeFile(jarDiff);
         }
     }
 
-    protected void updateObserver (ProgressObserver observer,
-                                   double currentSize, double size)
+    protected void updateObserver (ProgressObserver observer, double currentSize, double size)
     {
         if (observer != null) {
             observer.progress((int)(100*currentSize/size));
@@ -289,24 +286,14 @@ public class JarDiffPatcher implements JarDiffCodes
         data.close();
     }
 
-    private static JarFile closeFile(JarFile jar) {
+    private static void closeFile (JarFile jar) {
         if (jar != null) {
             try {
                 jar.close();
             } catch (IOException e) {
+                e.printStackTrace(System.err);
             }
         }
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    private static JarOutputStream closeStream(JarOutputStream jar) {
-        if (jar != null) {
-            try {
-                jar.close();
-            } catch (IOException e) {
-            }
-        }
-        return null;
     }
 
     protected static final int DEFAULT_READ_SIZE = 2048;

src/main/java/com/threerings/getdown/util/VersionUtil.java

@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ public class VersionUtil
         } finally {
             StreamUtil.close(in);
         }
-
     }
 
     private static int parseInt (String str) {