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Interface Cloneable

public abstract interface Cloneable
						

This interface is used to indicate that the class can have its instances cloned. The clone() method, inherited from Object, is valid, although typically a user-defined class will need to define its own version of clone() to provide the behavior desired for copying an entire object with a deep copy. A deep copy is the process of copying all the fields of all the dependent objects of a given object being copied. If you have a class that contains a GregorianCalendar object, a deep copy would copy the object, instantiate a new GregorianCalendar object for the copied object, and copy all the fields from the GregorianCalendar object that is being copied. In general, ...