[castor-user] Instance problems

[Manuel Castrillon]

Hello all. I have made a wrapper for Castor but when I preform a load I am faced with the following dilemma.  A new instance of my Object is created when I do load(), I realize that this would not be a problem in C++ because I could pass by reference...but in Java I really do not know how to go about this.  Something like Cloneable would be nice but it is private... Here is my code:      CastorWrapper castorWrapper = new CastorWrapper();    Cable c= new Cable();      //set required parameters     c=castorWrapper.doLoad(db1,pk,c);   public class CastorWrapper { public Cable doLoad(Database db, Object pk, Cable genObj)      throws Exception     {   &nbs! p;    //Cable clone=(Cable)genObj.clone();   //would be perfect!!!!             try {         //Ideally this would be the exact same instance, but obviously NOT         genObj=(Cable)db.load(genObj.getClass(),pk);      }      catch (PersistenceException pe) {       log4jCat.error("DB load failed.", pe);       db.rollback();      }       return genObj;     } }   All suggestions would be greatly appreciated....   Regards, Manuel     Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS!    Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193