Create instance of generic type in Java?

Is it possible to create an instance of a generic type in Java? I'm thinking based on what I've seen that the answer is no (due to type erasure), but I'd be interested if anyone can see something I'm missing:

class SomeContainer<E>
{
    E createContents()
    {
        return what???
    }
}

EDIT: It turns out that Super Type Tokens could be used to resolve my issue, but it requires a lot of reflection-based code, as some of the answers below have indicated.

I'll leave this open for a little while to see if anyone comes up with anything dramatically different than Ian Robertson's Artima Article.

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You are correct. You can't do "new E". But you can change it to

private static class SomeContainer<E>
{
    E createContents(Class<E> clazz)
    {
        return clazz.newInstance();
    }
}

It's a pain. But it works. Wrapping it in the factory pattern makes it a little more tolerable.

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Dunno if this helps, but when you subclass (including anonymously) a generic type, the type information is available via reflection. eg,

public abstract class Foo<E> {

  public E instance;  

  public Foo() throws Exception {
    instance = ((Class)((ParameterizedType)this.getClass().
       getGenericSuperclass()).getActualTypeArguments()[0]).newInstance();
    ...
  }

}

So, when you subclass Foo, you get an instance of Bar eg,

// notice that this in anonymous subclass of Foo
assert( new Foo<Bar>() {}.instance instanceof Bar );

But it's a lot of work, and only works for subclasses. Can be handy though.

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你需要某种形式的抽象工厂来传递：

interface Factory<E> {
    E create();
}

class SomeContainer<E> {
    private final Factory<E> factory;
    SomeContainer(Factory<E> factory) {
        this.factory = factory;
    }
    E createContents() {
        return factory.create();
    }
}

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