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    Lightbulb Cloneable interface

    Question:
    The purpose of Cloneable interface is to tell JVM that this class is eligible for cloning. Note that the class Object doesn't implement , hence if you call the Object class "clone()" method without implementing Cloneable interface, a CloneNotSupportedException will be thrown.

    How do I implement Cloneable interface, in my Taxpayer class below. Since I am doing An override of the clone method in this class. I am already implementing Taxable interface. Would it be possible to implement Taxable interface and Coneable interface?

    public class Taxpayer implements Taxable
    {
     
        private String iName = "";
        private float iIncome = 0;
        private double iTax = 0;
        private boolean iclone = false;
     
     
     
        public Taxpayer(String name, double income)
        {
     
             iName = name;
             iIncome = (float) income;  
     
        }
        public Object clone()
        {
               Taxpayer clone = null;
     
                try{
     
                   iclone = true;
                   clone = (Taxpayer) super.clone();
                } catch (CloneNotSupportedException xcp ) { clone = null;}
     
               return clone;
     
        }
    }

    Thank you,


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    Default Re: Cloneable interface

    What have you tried? Note that it's entirely possible to implement multiple interfaces. Just separate them by commas.

    PS- You have said that you can't call clone() on an Object. So what you do you expect super.clone() to do?
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    Default Re: Cloneable interface

    Please do not post multiple copies of the same question. I've deleted your duplicate thread.
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