While reading
API of Object.clone (), I cam across following paragraph.
�The method clone for class Object performs a specific cloning operation. First, if the class of this object does not implement the interface Cloneable, then a CloneNotSupportedException is thrown. Note that all arrays are considered to implement the interface Cloneable. Otherwise, this method creates a new instance of the class of this object and initializes all its fields with exactly the contents of the corresponding fields of this object, as if by assignment; the contents of the fields are not themselves cloned. Thus, this method performs a "shallow copy" of this object, not a "deep copy" operation.�
I am not clear, How to do �shallow copy� and �deep copy�?
[ May 25, 2006: Message edited by: Chetan Parekh ]