diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/XMLResultAggregator.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/XMLResultAggregator.java
index a8edf1912..fd41e08c3 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/XMLResultAggregator.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/XMLResultAggregator.java
@@ -211,11 +211,9 @@ public class XMLResultAggregator extends Task implements XMLConstants {
      * @throws IOException thrown if there is an error while writing the content.
      */
     protected void writeDOMTree(Document doc, File file) throws IOException {
-        OutputStream out = null;
-        PrintWriter wri = null;
+        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(file);
         try {
-            out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
-            wri = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF8"));
+            PrintWriter wri = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new BufferedOutputStream(os), "UTF8"));
             wri.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n");
             (new DOMElementWriter()).write(doc.getDocumentElement(), wri, 0, "  ");
             wri.flush();
@@ -224,8 +222,7 @@ public class XMLResultAggregator extends Task implements XMLConstants {
                 throw new IOException("Error while writing DOM content");
             }
         } finally {
-            FileUtils.close(wri);
-            FileUtils.close(out);
+            os.close();
         }
     }