How do you make a deep copy of an object?

Question

It\'s a bit difficult to implement a deep object copy function. What steps you take to ensure the original object and the cloned one share no reference?

Answer 1

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;

public class deepCopy {
    private static  XStream xstream = new XStream();

    //serialize with Xstream them deserialize ...
    public static Object deepCopy(Object obj){
        return xstream.fromXML(xstream.toXML(obj));
    }
}