-C-O-N-C-E-P-T- Series : Java

Object's Shallow Copy and Deep Copy in Java:


Understanding concept:
Suppose I have following two objects:



Shallow copy: "obj2" refers to the memory block pointed by "obj1" as shown below.



Deep Copy: Here the data is actually copied over from "obj1" to "obj2" as shown below.



Java code:



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Output:



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