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    The question is a duplicate of this Commented Sep 23, 2015 at 11:06
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    possible duplicate of Why does Hashtable not take null key? Commented Sep 23, 2015 at 11:10
  • Hashtable is older where as HashMap is newer as it was added in 1998. When they implemented HashMap they wanted to lift some of the limitations of Hashtable. Commented Sep 23, 2015 at 13:01