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

public class XYZ {
    ...
    private Class tClass;    
    ...
    public  readXmlToObject(String xmlFileName) {
       JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(tClass);
       ...
    }
    ...
}