question: protected Object cloneObject ( Object obj ) { if ( obj == null ) { return null ; } if ( obj instanceof String || obj instanceof Boolean || obj instanceof Byte || obj instanceof Short || obj instanceof Character || obj instanceof Integer || obj instanceof Long || obj instanceof Float || obj instanceof Double ) { return obj ; } if ( obj instanceof byte [ ] ) { byte [ ] body = ( byte [ ] ) obj ; byte [ ] data = new byte [ body . length ] ; System . arraycopy ( body , 0 , data , 0 , body . length ) ; return data ; } return SerializationHelper . deepClone ( obj ) ; }
target:  Returns a clone of the object.