java.lang
Interface Cloneable

public interface Cloneable

All classes that wants use the method Object.clone() must implements the Cloneable interface to indicate that it is legal for that method to make a clone instance of that class.

Invoking Object's clone method on an instance that does not implement the Cloneable interface results in the exception CloneNotSupportedException being thrown.

Classes that implement this interface can override Object.clone (which is protected) with a public method that implements specific rules or can use the native implementation of Java.lang.Object for cloning. See Object.clone() for details on overriding this method.

Note that this interface does not contain the clone method.

Since:

JDK1.0

See Also:

CloneNotSupportedException, Object.clone()