public List<?> deepCopy(List<?> src) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException{
ByteArrayOutputStream byteOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(byteOut);
out.writeObject(src);
ByteArrayInputStream byteIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteOut.toByteArray());
ObjectInputStream in =new ObjectInputStream(byteIn);
List<?> dest = (List<?>)in.readObject();
return dest;
}