Hibernate version 3, integrating with Spring & Spring MVC.

I'm familiar with cascade delete, and I'm wondering if there's anyway that I could perform cascade copy.

An example would be parent-child relationship.
If I create a copy of the parent, would I be able to create a copy of each children that the parent has (and also the children's of each child).

If this is possible, could someone point me to the right direction?

Thanks!

I think ur solution would be cloning with deep copy.
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Language-Basics/DeepCopyTest.htm

Is the deep copy you were refering to, requiring the models to implement clonable?

Would org.hibernate.session.replicate() works?
The description of this method says:
Persist the state of the given detached instance, reusing the current identifier value. This operation cascades to associated instances if the association is mapped with cascade="replicate".

I've read from other people's posting to use Hibernate3BeanReplicator, and I've made it work with this. Is this the best practice?