Generics problem accessing static field

[NamelessNumberheadMan]

So here is my problem. I have two beans (one extends the other), and I have one DAO class for each to access their tables (using Hibernate). In most cases the queries will be identical so I also have an abstract DAO class (extended by the other two DAOs) which contains the majority of the queries. I had the methods returning beans of the super class which, if need be, I would cast to the subclass. To avoid this casting I want to switch to generics. I changed over the abstract class with no compiliation erros, but I've hit a bump. In the two beans I have a static String field "entityName " which I access to for the Hibernate calls (Bean.entityNam e). When I converted to generics the reference changed to T.entityName which now always references the super class. What I need is to access whichever class' entityName I happen to be using.
Example:

class AbstractBeanDAO <T extends SuperBean> {
 
 public T get(Integer id){
  // this where I have the problem
  Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(T.entityName);
  // set some criteria
  return criteria.uniqueResult();
 }
}

No matter what I set as AbstractBeanDAO <type> it always references SuperBean.entit yName. There are times I need SubBean.entityN ame so I can access the correct table. How can I do this without having to duplicate code in the two DAO subclasses?

[JosAH]

Build one small non-static method in every class that returns that particular value. If the type of that value differs per class make that method return it as an Object.

kind regards,

Jos

[NamelessNumberheadMan]

I've been thinking about this, and I've come roughly the same conclusion (not yet implemented). I can't just make a non-static method in my beans because I can't make a static call to it. I need to add an abstract getEntityName to the abstract dao, and implement them in the concrete classes. The concrete classes will always use a same (non-generic) bean type so this shouldn't be an issue. Now in the abstract calls wherever I make the T.entityName call I would replace that with this.getEntityN ame();