Passing Types,as types

Question

I would like to be able to pass a type as a argument in a method, as a type not an instance of an object, so I can make a generalized method that can evaluate instanceof with a type.
Here is a Simple Example
  public interface MyType {
    public void someAction();
  public class SomeClass implements MyType{
     public void someAction(){
  public class Evaluate{
    public static boolean objectMatchesType(Object obj,type typeToMatch){
        return obj instanceof typeToMatch;
   public static void main(String[] args){
    if( objectMatchesType( new SomeClass() , MyType )
      System.out.println("Types Match");
  }I have tryed passing a class rather than an object but that didn't work.
Any Suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

public static boolean objectMatchesType(Object obj, Class cls) {
    return cls.isAssignableFrom(obj.getClass());
if(objectMatchesType(obj, String.class))