Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* GRANITE DATA SERVICES Copyright (C) 2011 GRANITE DATA SERVICES S.A.S. This file is part of Granite Data Services. Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.Set; import java.util.SortedSet; import java.util.TreeSet; public class Main { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public static Collection<Object> newCollection(Class<?> targetClass, int length) throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException { if (targetClass.isInterface()) { if (Set.class.isAssignableFrom(targetClass)) { if (SortedSet.class.isAssignableFrom(targetClass)) return new TreeSet<Object>(); return new HashSet<Object>(length); } if (targetClass.isAssignableFrom(ArrayList.class)) return new ArrayList<Object>(length); throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported collection interface: " + targetClass); } return (Collection<Object>) targetClass.newInstance(); } }