Hi,

I am trying to use the xmlEncoder to write to xml file in net-beans but it doesnt work.

Here is the call to the writing function:

dbManipulator.writeStudents(deps);

where

deps = new Hashtable<String, Department>();
dbManipulator = new DataBaseManipulator();

Department is an class-object I made, and here is writeStudents method which is located in the DataBaseManipulator class:

 public void writeStudents(Hashtable<Integer, Student> students)
    {
            XMLEncoder encoder = null;
            try
            {
                encoder = new XMLEncoder(new FileOutputStream(".\\test\\Students.xml"));
            }
            catch(Exception e){}
            encoder.writeObject(students);
            encoder.close();
    }//end of function writeStudents()

Any ideas why it isnt working? I tried changing the hashtable to vector but still the xml file looks like that after the writing:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<java version="1.6.0_18" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder"> 
 <object class="java.util.Hashtable"/> 
</java> 

Thanks in advance,

Greg