What is the main difference between shallow cloning and deep cloning of objects in java?
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Sumit Kesarwani
26-Mar-2014Java supports shallow cloning of objects by default when a class implements the java.lang.Cloneable interface.
Deep cloning through serialization is faster to develop and easier to maintain but carries a performance overhead.