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Clone Via Serialization

   

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import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.reflect.Member;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.net.URL;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;


import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;

/**
 * Contains various unorganized static utility methods used across Cayenne.
 * 
 * @author Andrei Adamchik
 */
public class Util {
  /**
   * Creates Serializable object copy using serialization/deserialization.
   */
  public static Object cloneViaSerialization(Serializable obj) throws Exception {
      ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream() {

          public synchronized byte[] toByteArray() {
              return buf;
          }
      };

      ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bytes);
      out.writeObject(obj);
      out.close();

      ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes
              .toByteArray()));
      Object objCopy = in.readObject();

      // no need to close the stream - we created it and now will be throwing away...
      // in.close();
      
      return objCopy;
  }
}

   
    
    
  








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