Getting the name of the generic class?

Question

I have a generic class declared as such:
public class MyClass<T>
and I want to access the name of the <T> class a member function in that class? I just can't figure out which syntax to use.
Thank you!
Joshua

Answer 1

Sorry, I'm a little bit confused at your answer.
I cannot seem to instantiate an object of class T, like: T item = new T();does not work. If I can't create an object of type T, then I can't get it's type. I need to get the class even if I don't have any instantiated objects (or if I can create a blank one), so that I can use the name to fetch the objects from the persistence engine. Here is the class, so you can see what I'm talking about. I have in there now what seems like it should be right, but doesn't compile.
A small example of solution please?
public class PersistentSelectorCellEditor<T> extends AbstractCellEditor
          implements TableCellEditor {
     JComboBox control;
     List<T> choices;
     Session session;
     public PersistentSelectorCellEditor() {
          initializeComponents();
     public PersistentSelectorCellEditor(Object value) {
          initializeComponents();
          this.control.setSelectedItem(value);
     private void initializePersistence() {
          session = LabApp.getSession();
          session.beginTransaction();
     private void initializeComponents() {
          initializePersistence();
          populateList();     //query for selections to fill combo box
          control = new JComboBox((ComboBoxModel)choices);
     private void populateList() {
          //query to populate drop down lists
          Query query = session.createQuery("from " + T.class.getName());
          choices = query.list();
     public void setValue(T value) {
          control.setSelectedItem(value);
     public T getValue() {
          return (T)control.getSelectedItem();
     //interface members
     public Object getCellEditorValue() {
          return control.getSelectedItem();
     public Component getTableCellEditorComponent(JTable table, Object value,
               boolean isSelected, int row, int column) {
          return control;
}Thank you!
Joshua