Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...

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This setup allows us to see how inheritance, member object ownership, and data types can affect cloning design and performance. In a previous Java Q&A article, I developed a simple timing library that ...