code: public static short[] copyOf(short[] shortArray) {
  
      	short[] copy = new short[shortArray.length];
          System.arraycopy(shortArray, 0, copy, 0, shortArray.length);
          return copy;
      }
docs: This method does a similar job to JSE 6.0's Arrays.copyOf() method and overloads the method for use with arrays of short
  @param shortArray The array to copy
  @return A copy of the input, of component type U