I would like to copy objects as templates for an administrative function in my application. I am using Hibernate 2.1 with MySQL and Struts. I can not find out how to do this in the documentation.

I don't uderstand you needs

I have a typical object graph reprensenting the model. There are a lot of fields associated and relationships in this graph. I would like to know if there is an API in Hibernate that takes one object and copies all the fields and relationships into a new object.

Something like:


Foo bar = (Foo)session.load(Foo.class, new Long(5));

Foo foo = (Foo)session.copy(bar);

session.save(foo);

Use the Hibernate ClassMetadata to write your own deep/shallow copy algorithem, for your own specific needs.