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Sharing Mutable References

• Pitfall:
  

  Employee harry = . . .;
  Date d = harry.getHireDate();
  d.setTime(t); // changes Harry's state!!!
  

• Remedy: Use clone
  

  public Date getHireDate() 
  { 
     return (Date)hireDate.clone();
  }
  

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