{"id":32,"date":"2008-11-17T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/what-is-cloneable"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:09:05","slug":"what-is-cloneable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifshitz.net\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"What is Cloneable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of the name comes from Java&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/j2se\/1.5.0\/docs\/api\/java\/lang\/Cloneable.html\">Cloneable<\/a> interface which means that, if a class implements the Cloneable interface it is an indication for the <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/j2se\/1.5.0\/docs\/api\/java\/lang\/Object.html#clone()\">Object.clone()<\/a> method that it is legal to make a field-for-field copy of instances of that class. 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