@Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public ArrayList<Savable> readSavableArrayList(String name, ArrayList defVal) throws IOException {
        Savable[] savableArray = readSavableArray(name, null);

        if (savableArray == null) {
            return defVal;
        }

        return new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(savableArray));
    }
Part of the jME XML IO system as introduced in the Google Code jmexml project.

@author Kai Rabien (hevee) - original author of the code.google.com jmexml project
@author Doug Daniels (dougnukem) - adjustments for jME 2.0 and Java 1.5
@author blaine
jme3-plugins/src/xml/java/com/jme3/export/xml/DOMInputCapsule.java