Does Java 8 Streaming Filter & Collect return references to same objects in the list?

Question

For example consider the code below

List<Reference> references = context.getReferences()
                                    .stream()
                                    .filter(ref -> ref.getCondition() == SOMETHING_DESIRABLE)
                                    .collect(Collectors.toList());

Now if I mutate each reference inside references list, will it be reflected inside the original context.references?

Answer 1

There is no general way to clone objects in Java.

It would be fundamentally impossible for it to automatically return different instances.