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Is there any way to use reflection to create an instance of a generic class.

For example, how to create an instance of PriorityQueue<Integer> using reflection such as Class or Type, instead of call its constructor.

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    Yes, you just create a raw instance of the class, and cast it. There is no difference between the two, owing to type erasure. Commented Feb 2, 2017 at 20:29

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You can always cast raw types to/from generic types.

PriorityQueue<Integer> queue = (PriorityQueue<Integer>) PriorityQueue.class.newInstance();
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