try {
            ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            ASN1OutputStream dos = ASN1OutputStream.create(bos, ASN1Encoding.DER);
            dos.writeObject(new DERSequence(mechs));
            dos.close();
            return bos.toByteArray();
        }
        catch ( IOException e ) {

      throws IOException {
    ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);

    out.writeObject(original);

    byte[] handle = toByteArray(baseWireHandle + handleOffset);
    byte[] ref = prepended(TC_REFERENCE, handle);
    bos.write(ref);

    return bos.toByteArray();
  }

  <T> T serialClone(T o) {
    try {
      ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
      ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
      oos.writeObject(o);
      oos.flush();
      oos.close();
      ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray()));
      T clone = (T) ois.readObject();

  <T> T serialClone(T o) {
    try {
      ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
      ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);
      oos.writeObject(o);
      oos.flush();
      oos.close();
      ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray()));
      T clone = (T) ois.readObject();