Here you can find the source of invoke(Object target, Class
private static <T> T invoke(Object target, Class<T> clazz, String method)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w ww .j ava2 s . c o m * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source. * Copyright 2010, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors * as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the * distribution for a full listing of individual contributors. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software 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 * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ import java.lang.reflect.Method; public class Main { private static <T> T invoke(Object target, Class<T> clazz, String method) { try { Method m = target.getClass().getMethod(method); return clazz.cast(m.invoke(target)); } catch (Throwable t) { throw new RuntimeException(t); } } }