@Override
    public short[] readShortArray(String name, short[] defVal) throws IOException {
        short[] array = (short[]) readPrimitiveArrayHelper(findChildElement(name), "short");
        return array != null ? array : defVal;
    }
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