Serializable problem

[javaPower]

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?

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());
	}
}

the class Cat.java

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;
	}
}

[masijade]

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

[javaPower]

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

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

[Tolls]

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