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I have a variable of type List<RelationHeader>. Now I want to copy all the elements in this list to a new list, but I want to actually copy all the members by value (clone them). Is there a quick command to do this, or do I need to iterate over the list and copy them one at a time?

Amir Rachum
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    See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/715650/java-how-to-clone-arraylist-but-also-clone-its-items – Jon Apr 25 '10 at 19:33

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You'll have to do this manually. There's no generally accepted way of deep-copying objects in Java (clone() is not really used for this - see this Joshua Bloch article) and you'll have to determine yourself how deep you want to copy those objects.

Brian Agnew
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