Dynamic enum instantiation and access

Question

Here's what I would like to do, but I'm not sure if/how it can be done.
Given a set of enum's e1, e2, e3;
1. Specify at runtime the enum I'm interested in as a string "e1".
2. Dynamically create an object of that type.
3. Access the values() method at runtime to see what the constants of e1 are.
I can get this far:
String className = new String("e1");
Class c = Class.forName(className);
Object o = c.newInstance();Step #3 is the issue. I don't know how to cast the object in order to get access to the values() method. The Enum class does not include that method. Anyone know what does that I can cast my object to?
Thanks,
Mark

Answer 1

import java.util.EnumSet;
* @since October 10, 2006, 12:41 PM
* @author Ian Schneider
public enum DynamicEnumAccess {
    A,B,C,D,E,F,G;
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Class<? extends Enum> e = (Class<? extends Enum>) Class.forName("DynamicEnumAccess");
        EnumSet allOf = EnumSet.allOf(e);
        System.out.println(allOf);
}