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Hi everyone.
My problem is
1.What is the different from deep and shallow copy.
2.What is the example.
Thanks.
 
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A shallow copy just copies all mutable object references as is. A deep copy clones every object so that the references refer to different objects.
Shallow copy:
Shallow copy example

Deep copy example

Notice that in the deep copy I created a new double[] and copied the contents of it into my clone and I created a new Map with HashMap's copy constructor. Note that on the primitive int and the String member that there is no difference in the clone methods. The reason for this is that primitive instance variables of objects of the same class always have unique storage for each object. As for the String member, Strings are immutable so there is no danger that the cloned object could change the value of the String in the parent.
 
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ok.
Thanks for your help.
 
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