Java is equivalent to typeof (someclass)

I try to achieve one

Hashtable<string,-Typeof one Class->

In Java But I don't know how to make this work I tried

Hashtable<String,AbstractRestCommand.class>

But this seems wrong

By the way I want this to create a new instance of the class for each reflection at run time

So my question is, how to do such a thing

Edit:

I have the abstract class "abstractrestcommand" Now I want to create a hashtable with many commands:

Commands.put("PUT",-PutCommand-);
    Commands.put("DELETE",-DeleteCommand-);

Putcommand and DeleteCommand extend abstractrestcommand so that I can use it to create a new instance

String com = "PUT"
AbstractRestCommand command = Commands[com].forName().newInstance();
...

Solution

Do you want to create a string to class mapping? This can be done by:

Map<String,Class<?>> map = new HashMap<String,Class<?>>();
map.put("foo",AbstractRestCommand.class);

If you want to limit the possible types to an interface or public superclass, you can use bounded wildcards. Later, you can use the mapped class object to create an object of this type:

Map<String,Class<? extends AbstractRestCommand>> map =
                    new HashMap<String,Class<? extends AbstractRestCommand>>();
map.put("PUT",PutCommand.class);
map.put("DELETE",DeleteCommand.class);
...
Class<? extends AbstractRestCommand> cmdType = map.get(cmdName);
if(cmdType != null)
{
    AbstractRestCommand command = cmdType.newInstance();
    if(command != null)
        command.execute();
}