Creating an Instance of an Abstract Class

With http://objenesis.org/:

“Objenesis aims to overcome these restrictions by bypassing the constructor on object instantiation.”
(from http://objenesis.org/index.html)

Note: Spring (re)packs objensis in spring-core in the org.springframework.objenesis package.

// simple but not recommended
ObjenesisHelper.newInstance(MyClass.class);

Objenesis objenesis = new ObjenesisStd();
ObjectInstantiator<MyClass> instantiator = objenesis.getInstantiatorOf(MyClass.class);
MyClass newInstance = instantiator.newInstance();
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