why clone() is protected in Object class?

purushottam krishna hegde <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:24:42 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
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Hi all,
two doubts
1)
i want to know the reason behind protected clone method in Object class
as we have to call super.clone() in our overriding method.
2)Where java stores the type identification of an object(Object being upcasted to super class) when Polymorphism
Occurs (by R T T I -Runtime type identification )


thanks in advance

purushottam hegde


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