How do I return an instance of an object of the same type as the class passed in using Java 6?

Question

I want to return an instance of an object of same type of the Class object passed in. The type passed in can be ANYTHING. Is there a way to do this with Generics?

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Answer 1

If you aren't trying to do anything fancy with the object during the creation, what's wrong with just using a good old fashioned constructors?

You should be able to use something similar to:

public T getObject(T obj)
{
  return obj.newInstance();
}