Reduce technical debt

Focusing on easy try-with-resources changes. Plus some other minor items.
I did not get all of them yet, as some have some heavy refactoring. These
try-with-resources seem to be fairly harmless.

* Utilize try-with-resources
* Remove unnecessary parenthesis
* Merging simple if statements
* Remove useless assignment
* Moving string literals to left hand side

Issue-ID: POLICY-482
Change-Id: If519ec8ea96f6b90bf82ac2676ffea9cd0cd2daf
Signed-off-by: Pamela Dragosh <pdragosh@research.att.com>