Object Cloning
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What is a Copy Constructor?
A copy constructor is a special constructor that creates a new object as a duplicate of an existing object of the same class, copying its field values into the…
Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy
A shallow copy duplicates an object’s top-level fields but keeps any reference-type fields pointing to the same underlying objects as the original, while a dee…
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…