Diffarence between shallow copy and deep copy

[sarma kiran]

Hi,
Can any one tell me what is the diffarence between Shallow copy and Deep copy with examples.

[Rajkamal Pillai]

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip76.html

Cheers,
Raj.

[Praveen Kumar]

Shallow copy object and original objects share the member variables.
Object's clone method will do shallow copy.

Where as in deep copy deep copy object and original object will its own member variables. We can get this one by seralisation.

[James Ryder]

Rajkamal Pillai wrote:http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip76.html

Cheers,
Raj.

Thanks Raj for this awesome reference. I was also looking for a good reference to difference between shallow copy and deep copy. But I felt your post a bit older.
meanwhile I found this one from Marcus Biel.
I liked the way he explained.