Cloning with generics

Question

Once upon a time there was a class:

public class Scope> implements Comparable>, Clon         


        

Answer 1

This is one reason why no one likes Cloneable. It's supposed to be a marker interface, but it's basically useless because you can't clone an arbitrary Cloneable object without reflection.

Pretty much the only way to do this is to create your own interface with a public clone() method (it doesn't have to be called "clone()"). Here's an example from another StackOverflow question.