Instantiating an inner class

Question

I have a utility method and when irrelevant logic is removed from it, the simplified method would look like this:

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Answer 1

Something more generic:

    public static  T createInstance(final Class clazz) throws SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException,
            IllegalArgumentException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException {

            T instanceToReturn = null;
            Class< ? > enclosingClass = clazz.getEnclosingClass();

            if (enclosingClass != null) {
                Object instanceOfEnclosingClass = createInstance(enclosingClass);

                Constructor ctor = clazz.getConstructor(enclosingClass);

                if (ctor != null) {
                    instanceToReturn = ctor.newInstance(instanceOfEnclosingClass);
                }
            } else {
                instanceToReturn = clazz.newInstance();
            }

            return instanceToReturn;
     }