I have the following code that takes a collection of beans and returns an array of Data Transfer Objects, sorted for HTML display.

public static RefDTO [] convertRefs(Collection coll) {
Set sortedSet = new TreeSet();
Iterator i = coll.iterator();
while (i.hasNext()) {
Reference ref = (Reference) i.next();
sortedSet.add(convertToReferenceDTO(ref));
}
RefDTO [] dtoa = new RefDTO[sortedSet.size()];
sortedSet.toArray(dtoa);
return dtoa;
}

What I would like is some generic function that takes class names or some other argument type and creates XDTO array based on arguments passed to it.

How would I do this? Or where can I go to learn how I could accomplish this?

Many thanks,
Joe