Syntax to return a hashtable from a method?

[CrystalVisualBOracle]

Hi. I'll apologize up front for this question as I'm sure it's a simple one. I'm extremely new to JSP, Java classes etc.

My question is how can I return a hashtable from a method? In all of the examples I've found, the class which establishes and fills the hashtable is declared public so all of the other methods can see the hashtable. I would prefer to pass the hashtable to the calling object. Does anyone know the syntax for this?

ie/ Return HashtableName[]?

Thanks in Advance,
CrystalVisualBOracle (-:

 

[mjmaio]

Can't you just return the name of the modified HashTable? For example:

public Hashtable[] foo(HashTable[] tmp)
{
...
...
do stuff
...
...
return tmp;
}

The syntax is probably not right, but the idea is there.

Matthew J