What are the methods to implement object cloning in Java?
There are several ways to implement object cloning in Java.
- Implement the Cloneable interface and override the clone method.
- In the code above, the class MyClass is implementing the Cloneable interface and overriding the clone() method to throw a CloneNotSupportedException and return the result of calling super.clone().
- Use the clone method of the Object class and call the super.clone() method in the class.
- This is a class named MyClass with a method clone that overrides the clone method in the superclass and returns a cloned object.
- Implement object cloning using serialization and deserialization.
- The class MyClass implements Serializable and includes a method called clone that creates a deep copy of the object.
It is important to note that in order to achieve deep copy (meaning cloning an object without sharing references with the original object), it is necessary to perform clone operations on reference type member variables within the clone method.