New class object statically.

Question

I have a class Test. This class has a static method which has as its purpose to create a new Test object. I currently have something like this:
public static Test getInstance() {
  return new Test();
}I was wondering if it is possible to write this code in such a way that no explicit reference to Test was made... and, as the always important follow up question, if it is possible, whether it is wise to do so?

Answer 1

I have an interface and several classes implementing
that interface. Each of these classes has a static
method that has a Hashtable as a parameter. When that
static method is called, the method creates an object
of the class it is in and then adds the object to the
Hashtable (the key for this entry is retrieved from
the class its from).
The 'problem' is that I have to write each of those
methods in each class myself, when all I really want
is to do the exact same thing over and over again
(with each of the classes), just with different class
objects.it's not "the same exact thing" over and over, though, is it? you're instantiating different classes in different methods. are you doing this to keep track of instances? you could have a factory that uses reflection to instantiate classes, and add them to the correct Map, but it can be awkward