Using Generics to return Dynamic JAXBElement

I have multiple root elements and thus, I need to write

JAXBElement<BookType> jaxbBookType = objectFactory.createBookType (bookType);
JAXBElement<OrderType> jaxbOrderType = objectFactory.createOrderType (orderType);

and so on. I don't want to write this piece of code again and again. I am trying to write a method which will return me JAXBElement based on its input.

What i am trying to write is

public <T> JAXBElement<T> getJaxbElement (Object obj){
    if (obj instanceof OrderType){
        return objectFactory.createOrderType((OrderType)obj);
    }
}

But obviously, I am doing it wrong. Since i don't know much about Generics and after reading it for a while, I am still confuse. Can someone help me little bit here.

In case you can assume to use the instanceof operator with the parameter, just casting to JAXBElement<T> would be enough:

public <T> JAXBElement<T> getJaxbElement (Object obj){
    Object ret;
    if (obj instanceof OrderType){
        ret = objectFactory.createOrderType((OrderType)obj);
    }
    else if (obj instanceof BookType){
        ret = objectFactory.createBookType((BookType)obj);
    }
    return (JAXBElement<T>) ret;
}

In case you can't, being the method name what does have to be dynamic here, a possibility is to use reflection (always unreliable and likely to backfire with all kinds of problems).

Notice you'll also have to pass along the Class of T so that it'll be available at runtime (it's not possible to do T.getName()):

public <T> JAXBElement<T> getJaxbElement (Object obj, Class<T> clazz){
    ObjectFactory objectFactory = getObjectFactory();
    String methodName = "create" +  clazz.getName();
    Method m = objectFactory.getClass().getDeclaredMethod(methodName, clazz);
    Object ret = m.invoke(objectFactory, obj);
    return (JAXBElement<T>) ret;
}