Deep Clone a object in Java

Below is the simple program to deep clone a object in java

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.ObjectInputStream;

import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**

 *

 * @author shailesh.chandra

 *

 */

public class DeepCloneExample implements Cloneable, Serializable {

/**

*

*/

private static final long serialVersionUID = 6514927441919765349L;

public static void main(String[] args) throws CloneNotSupportedException {

DeepCloneExample deepCloneExample = new DeepCloneExample();

System.out.println(deepCloneExample);

DeepCloneExample cloneObject = (DeepCloneExample) deepCloneExample.clone();

System.out.println(cloneObject);

}

@Override

protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {

Object object = deepClone();

return object;

}

/**

*

* @return

* @throws CloneNotSupportedException

*/

protected Object deepClone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {

DeepCloneExample clone;

try {

clone = null;

ByteArrayOutputStream bytearrayoutputstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(100);

ObjectOutputStream objectoutputstream = new ObjectOutputStream(bytearrayoutputstream);

objectoutputstream.writeObject(this);

byte abyte0[] = bytearrayoutputstream.toByteArray();

objectoutputstream.close();

ByteArrayInputStream bytearrayinputstream = new ByteArrayInputStream(abyte0);

ObjectInputStream objectinputstream = new ObjectInputStream(bytearrayinputstream);

clone = (DeepCloneExample) objectinputstream.readObject();

objectinputstream.close();

} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

throw new CloneNotSupportedException(e.getMessage());

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

throw new CloneNotSupportedException(e.getMessage());

}

return clone;

}

}