Using reflection in Java to create a new instance with the reference variable type set to the new instance class name?

Question

All the examples I look at for reflection show creating a new instance of an unknown implementation, and casting that implementation to it\'s interface. The issue with this

Answer 1

I'm not absolutely sure I got your question correctly, but it seems you want something like this:

    Class c = null;
    try {
        c = Class.forName("com.path.to.ImplementationType");
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    T interfaceType = null;
    try {
        interfaceType = (T) c.newInstance();
    } catch (InstantiationException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Where T can be defined in method level or in class level, i.e.