clone interface

[Steven Coddington]

I need to do a deep copy of an object with both primative and String type variables. "clone" returns a copy with values for primatives and references for non-primative String ( I think). Is there an alternative to clone() that does deep, or can someone help me write an alternative.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

You can override clone() with your own version with deep-copy semantics. Depending on the class, this might be as simple as calling super.clone() to get a shallow copy, and then calling clone() on each of your member objects, installing the copies inside your shallow copy, and then returning it.

[Saket Barve]

Here is an example of what Ernest describes above:
Shallow Vs. Deep Cloning

Regards,
Saket