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How can clone method be protected in Cloneable interface while interfaces can only declare public methods?
I have a very simple question (I guess!) How can clone method be protected
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I have a very simple question (I guess!)
How can clone method be protected in Cloneable interface while interfaces can only declare public methods?
Cloneableis a marker interface it doesn’t have any methods.clone method is in Object class, since all objects in Java implicitly extends Object hence its available even if its protected.
If a class doesn’t implement
Cloneableand its clone method is called it will thrown CloneNotSupportedException