Hi,

In my application I need to deep copy an Object (which really is an array of
Objects that contains more arrays and so on - and which is not always the
same structure - but the elements are either String, Integer or Boolean).

How best to do this? At the moment I save the object to a file and read it
back in again - but this is not the most efficient method of doing it I
guess.

What other way can I do it? Can I instead of saving it to a file just store
it in memory? Or should I illiterate through the object (arrays) and copy
them element by element?

Thanks for any ideas,
Alan.

The code I have is below:

//vdata is the Object that i need to deep copy
     //write
     FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("temp.dat");
     ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(out);
     oos.writeObject(vdata);
     oos.flush();
     oos.close();
     out.close();
   //read
     FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("temp.dat");
     ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(in);
     Object vdataDup = ois.readObject();
     ois.close();
     in.close();