Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:01:08 +0200 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Define Type at runtime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: $$afwhll$slnyo.news.x-privat.org Message-ID: <4e678737$1@news.x-privat.org> Organization: X-Privat.Org NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org Lines: 8 X-Authenticated-User: $$p9zou1n1$ng5dhdq$s2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!noc.x-privat.org!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7678 If I have a method: public void someMethod(Object o){ ... Entity entity; .... } How could I define at runtime the type T if I have an Object?