smart clone from jboss serialization library causes lazy initialization exception

[reyjexter.reyjexter.gmail.com]

i have a clone util method that uses jboss serialization's smartClone method. heres the code:

public Object cloneObject(Object input) {
          try {
               JBossObjectOutputStream jbossSerializer = new JBossObjectOutputStream(null);
               Object obj = jbossSerializer.smartClone(input);
               return obj;
          }
          catch(Exception e) {
               System.out.println("EXCEPTION CAUGHT: " + e.getMessage());
               return null;
          }
     }

but when i invoked that method, an exception saying something like failed to lazily initialize a collection of role: ... is thrown.

i'm not sure if this is a bug or i misused the serialization library

[reyjexter.reyjexter.gmail.com]

sorry. i forgot that after cloning, the new object returned is detached from entity manager but i still used and updated the object.

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