Get “Class” object from generic type T

Question

I want to make generic function that return Object representation of XML document (using JAXB). I need to pass \"class\" object to JAXBContext constructor, but how I can get it

Answer 1

Don't listen to the others... you CAN get it.

Simply change the type of the jaxbClass parameter to Class:

public  T readXmlToObject(String xmlFileName, Class jaxbClass) {
   JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(jaxbClass);
   .......
}