下面是一种通用的深度克隆方法，使用字节数组流进行对象序列化和反序列化(以避免写入文件)。

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static <T extends Serializable> T deepClone(T t) {
    try (ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);) {
        oos.writeObject(t);
        byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
        try (ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes))) {
            return (T) ois.readObject();
        }
    } catch (IOException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

XStream在这种情况下非常有用。这是一个简单的代码来做克隆

private static final XStream XSTREAM = new XStream();
...

Object newObject = XSTREAM.fromXML(XSTREAM.toXML(obj));

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));
    }
}

一种非常简单的方法是使用Jackson JSON将复杂的Java对象序列化为JSON并读取回来。

来自https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/#5-minute-tutorial-streaming-parser-generator:

JsonFactory f = mapper.getFactory(); // may alternatively construct directly too

// First: write simple JSON output
File jsonFile = new File("test.json");
JsonGenerator g = f.createGenerator(jsonFile);
// write JSON: { "message" : "Hello world!" }
g.writeStartObject();
g.writeStringField("message", "Hello world!");
g.writeEndObject();
g.close();

// Second: read file back
JsonParser p = f.createParser(jsonFile);

JsonToken t = p.nextToken(); // Should be JsonToken.START_OBJECT
t = p.nextToken(); // JsonToken.FIELD_NAME
if ((t != JsonToken.FIELD_NAME) || !"message".equals(p.getCurrentName())) {
   // handle error
}
t = p.nextToken();
if (t != JsonToken.VALUE_STRING) {
   // similarly
}
String msg = p.getText();
System.out.printf("My message to you is: %s!\n", msg);
p.close();

对于复杂的对象，当性能不重要时，我使用json库，如gson 要将对象序列化为json文本，然后反序列化文本以获得新对象。

gson，基于反射将工作在大多数情况下，除了瞬态字段将不会被复制和对象的循环引用与原因StackOverflowError。

public static <T> T copy(T anObject, Class<T> classInfo) {
    Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
    String text = gson.toJson(anObject);
    T newObject = gson.fromJson(text, classInfo);
    return newObject;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String originalObject = "hello";
    String copiedObject = copy(originalObject, String.class);
}

BeanUtils在深度克隆bean方面做得非常好。

BeanUtils.cloneBean(obj);