Instantiating a generic class in Java

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Published on 2009-07-07T05:13:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 11:57 UTC
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I know Java's generics are somewhat inferior to .Net's.

I have a generic class Foo<T>, and I really need to instantiate a T in Foo using a parameter-less constructor. How can one work around Java's limitation?

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