Generics and Reflection

• Class Class has been generified

• • Class literal Foo.class is of type Class<Foo>

• Enables compile-time type-safe reflection

• • Foo foo = Foo.class.newInstance();

• Enables strongly typed static factories

• <T extends Person> getPerson(Class<T> personType);

• Child c = MyFac.class.getPerson(Child.class);