Trying to Clone an array object that contains other objects

I have an employee object with the fields name (String), Salary (Double), and hireDay (Date). Since the date field contains many int fields (year, month etc..), using a straight clone will not work.
What I want to do is copy an array of employees into a new array.
For example:
Employee [] newEmps = (Employee[])OldEmps.clone()
In the employee class, I implement the Cloneable interface and my code so far will copy one Employee. How do I change this to copy an array of empoyees? Specifically, since hireDay contains many fields, a straight super.clone of the array won't work. Here is my clone code:
     public Object clone()
     try {
          // call Object.clone()
     Employee cloned = (Employee)super.clone();
          // clone mutable fields
cloned.hireDay = (Date)hireDay.clone();
     return cloned;
     catch (CloneNotSupportedException e)
     { return null; }
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
-Eric

There's so much I don't understand about that, it just
isn't worth asking. Let me spell out my previous post
since it seems to have gone right over your
head.Employee[] emps;
// here you fill in the array of Employees
Employee[] clonedEmps = new Employee[emps.length];
for (int z=0; z<emps.length; z++) {I understand this next line of code. My question lies within the clone() function
clonedEmps[z] = emps[z].clone();OK - Let me try to clear things up. If we take from your example the original array "emps". Now for me, emps, is already filled up in main().
So in main() when I call emps.clone(), my clone function starts running:
// the employee class (which I created) implements the Cloneable
// interface
// This clone function is inside my employee class
public Object [] clone()
try {
Employee [] cloned = (Employee)super.clone();
// IS THIS NEXT LINE OF CODE REQUIRED TO MAKE A DEEP COPY? IF SO, How would I implement perhaps a for loop that would copy the hireDay from each element in the original array to the elements in the the new array?
// Obviously, each employee (element in the array) has a hireDay
// Please modify this next line of code to show me how.
cloned.hireDay = (Date)hireDay.clone();
return cloned;
catch (CloneNotSupportedException e)
{ return null; }
If I wanted to access say the "hireDay" field of the 3rd element in the original employee array INSIDE THE CLONE FUNCTION - then how would i access it?
Thanks
-Eric

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