Using BeanItemContainer more generally

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework Data Binding
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Hello!
I am trying to use the BeanItemContainer more generally. I have a lot of different objects where each one should be displayed in a seperate table. I do not want to create for each of these objects a seperate container. But how can I do this? I already tried it with generics but it did not work.

All of these objets bases on one constructor, but if I make a container with the constructors name I am not able to display any more values then the ones which are defined in the constrcutor. Another way to create a class which will be extended by each of the objects even does not work.

This is my current container code for the table datasource:


public class XContainerSource extends BeanItemContainer<XContainerObject> {
	
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 5480664023245457795L;

	private static Logger log = Logger.getLogger(XContainerSource.class);
	
	public XContainerSource() throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException {
		super(XContainerObject.class);	
	}
	
	/**
	 * This method returns a list
	 * @param list
	 * @return
	 */
	public static XContainerSource getList(List<?> list){
		try {
			XContainerSource cont = new XContainerSource();
			
			for(int i = 0; i<list.size(); i++){
				cont.addItem(list.get(i));
			}
			return cont;
		}
		catch(Exception e){
			log.error(e.getMessage());
			return null;
		}
	}
}

Can someone help me, that would be great!

Thanks,
Florian