Encryption with AES-256 JAVA

Encryption with AES-256 JAVA

I have this simple code, that i found on the internet.. im learning this
stuff of encryption/decryption.. this code seems to work fine, but i don't
understand something... why after the "c.doFinal()" (which is for
encrypt/decrypt with AES-256) this guy encode/decode that encrypted value,
with BASE64? its not enough only by using AES?
`private static final String ALGO = "AES";
private static final byte[] keyValue =
new byte[] { 'T', 'h', 'e', 'B', 'e', 's', 't', 'S', 'e', 'c', 'r','e',
't', 'K', 'e', 'y' };
public static String encrypt(String Data) throws Exception {
Key key = generateKey();
Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
c.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key);
byte[] encVal = c.doFinal(Data.getBytes());
String encryptedValue = new BASE64Encoder().encode(encVal);
return encryptedValue;
}
public static String decrypt(String encryptedData) throws Exception {
Key key = generateKey();
Cipher c = Cipher.getInstance(ALGO);
c.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key);
byte[] decordedValue = new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(encryptedData);
byte[] decValue = c.doFinal(decordedValue);
String decryptedValue = new String(decValue);
return decryptedValue;
}
private static Key generateKey() throws Exception {
Key key = new SecretKeySpec(keyValue, ALGO);
return key;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String password = "SOME TEXT";
String passwordEnc = AES.encrypt(password);
String passwordDec = AES.decrypt(passwordEnc);
System.out.println("Plain Text : " + password);
System.out.println("Encrypted Text : " + passwordEnc);
System.out.println("Decrypted Text : " + passwordDec);
}`
Thanks!!