Difference b/w HashTable and HashMap

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

Please tell me all differences b/w a HashTable and HashMap
**Plz also tell the situations in which each one of them should be used.

[naveen gupta]

http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=java&seqNum=95

[Michael Dunn]

did you read the api docs?
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/HashMap.html


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"(The HashMap class is roughly equivalent to Hashtable, except that it is
unsynchronized and permits nulls.)"

[Raj Kumar Bindal]

Thanx a lot,
Both link were helpful to me.