Java, XML - Read/Write a List of Objects

One of the things that I have been doing in my applications is using XML files to store lists. As illustrated by these two short methods, the XStream library makes this very easy to do .

Write a list of class FieldDescriptor to a file:

private static void saveFieldDefinitions(String fieldDescriptorName, LinkedList<FieldDescriptor> list) throws IOException {
    XStream xs = new XStream();
    xs.alias("FieldDescriptor", FieldDescriptor.class); 
    //Write
    try {
        FileOutputStream fs = new FileOutputStream(fieldDefinitionsFilePath + "\\" + fieldDescriptorName + ".xml");
        xs.toXML(list, fs);
        fs.close();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Reada list of class FieldDescriptor from a file:

protected void loadFieldDefinitions(String fieldDescriptorName) {
    XStream xs = new XStream(new DomDriver());
    xs.alias("FieldDescriptor", FieldDescriptor.class);        
    //Read
    try {
        FileInputStream  fs = new FileInputStream(fieldDefinitionsFilePath + "\\" + fieldDescriptorName + ".xml");
        lstFieldDescriptor = (List<FieldDescriptor>) xs.fromXML(fs);
        fs.close();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch(Exception e2) {
        e2.printStackTrace();
    }
}