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I've been searching all over the internet for this to no avail, so thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me. Basically I have to write a class that contains a sort method which takes in an array of any Comparable Objects and returns a new array of the same type without altering the original. It has to be able to do something like this:

sortedArray = SortClass.sort(unsortedArray);

where the arrays are separate and of any type of Object. I imagine I need to create a new array and clone each object, but the problem I'm having is how do I make the new array and cast the objects to the same type as the array that was passed in? Would it be something like:

public static Object[] sort(Object[] toBeSorted) {...}

or will I have to make use of the Class class, using Class<T>? I don't really know how to do this, I was just looking around on the API spec and this seems useful.

Thanks again.