What are the relative advantages of XMLEncoder and XStream?

Question

Suppose I want to store many small configuration objects in XML, and I don\'t care too much about the format. The XMLDecoder class built into the JDK would work, and from what I

Answer 1

Java also has a new utility class aimed at storing Key-Value paired sets typical to configurations. It is the old style but very simple and handy. This is done via the java.util.Properties class, a Map object with serialization options. This might be all you need unless you are storing entire objects.