List of Classes in Java

Question

I have multiple classes (B, C and D) that are subclasses of class A. I need to make a List/Array containing B, C and D and create Objects based on whatever element I pull from the List/Array.

In AS3 I would do something like this: var classes:Array = [MovieClip, Sprite, Shape]; or a Vector of Classes.

How do I do this in Java? I'm thinking about something like this right now:

List<Class<? extends A>> list = new ArrayList<Class<? extends A>>();

list.add(B);

Answer 1

List<Class<? extends A>> classes = new ArrayList<Class<? extends A>>(); classes.add(B.class); classes.add(C.class); classes.add(D.class); 

Answer 2

You can do analogues of both of those. As CarlosZ pointed out, there's List and its various implementations, or you can create an array:

Class[] classes = new Class[] {
    MovieClip.class, Sprite.class, Shape.class
};