Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

Hi everyone,

This might have been asked before but I've scoured the forums and i'm still unsure about how to create an xml representation of a jtree object.
The following code doesn't do the trick:

XMLEncoder xml = null;
JTree loaded = tree1;
try {
	xml = new XMLEncoder( new BufferedOutputStream(
					new FileOutputStream("Test.xml")));
     } 
catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
	e1.printStackTrace();
}


		xml.writeObject(loaded);
		xml.flush();
		xml.close();
	    }

I assume a jtree cannot be so simply represented in xml but could someone explain how it can be done and what steps I need to take in order to achieve this?

Thanks.