How to deep copy a Hibernate entity while using a newly generated entity identifier

Question

I\'m using a relational DB using a single column pk with a few nested tables.

I need to add a simple archiving to my project. The archiving only happens when the appl

Answer 1

1- Add commons-lang dependency to pom.xml file

    commons-lang
    commons-lang
    2.6

2- Import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils

3- Use SerializationUtils.clone(oldObj)

ex. Class1 newObj = (Class1) SerializationUtils.clone(oldObj);

see also java-deep-copy