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What is a Shallow Copy?

A shallow copy creates a new object and copies the values of the original object’s fields into it, but for any field that is itself a reference to another obje…

What is the clone() Method?

clone() is a protected method defined on Java’s Object class that creates and returns a field-by-field copy of the calling object, and a class must implement t…

What is Object Cloning?

Object cloning is the general technique of creating a new object that has the same state as an existing object, so the copy can be used or modified independent…

What is a Marker Interface in OOP?

A marker interface is an interface with no methods or fields at all, used purely to tag a class as belonging to a category so that other code can check for tha…