Serializable problem

i can't figure out what's wrong, but what i'm expecting from the last line System.out.println is to print the name Catty, but the string is empty. why?

Code:

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import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

public class SerializeCat implements Serializable {

        public static void main(String[] args) {
                Cat cat1 = new Cat("Catty");
                Cat cat2 = new Cat();
               
                try {
                        ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("cat.ser"));
                        out.writeObject(cat1);
                        out.close();
                } catch (Exception e) {}
               
                try {
                ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("cat.ser"));
                cat2 = (Cat) in.readObject();
                in.close();
                } catch (Exception e) {}

                System.out.println("The name of cat2 is " + cat2.getName());
        }
}

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the class Cat.java

Code:

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public class Cat {
        private String name;
       
        public Cat(String name) {
                this.name = name;
        }
       
        public Cat() {
                this("");
        }

        public String getName() {
                return name;
        }

        public void setName(String name) {
                this.name = name;
        }
}

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Make the class Cat serialisable, not the class that is testing it's serialisation capability.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by masijade

Make the class Cat serialisable, not the class that is testing it's serialisation capability.

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ok, now i'm awake :) thank you.

Also don't eat exceptions.
At least do printStackTrace()...if you'd done that you would have seen the exception that this caused.