but this means that you could create a clone of the super class even if the author of the super class didn't want you to create one? cause i read somewhere that if you want to prevent someone from creating a clone, simply do not implement Cloneable interface. but then is this is a loop-around which makes the whole process ineffective. what am i missing here?
[ November 24, 2005: Message edited by: Rahul Kakkar ]