Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want.

That still doesn't necessarily "work" - the object you clone may have references to other objects, which would be handled properly by a real clone method.

xFunction is a Java library that allows you to access a DLL (or, I think, any dynamic library for an OS) as a Java object.I'm evaluating it now, but it seems to be what I need. I have the ...