I am using Java Reflection to expose methods in custom eclipse tool.

I am writing method getReturnType which accepts java.lang.reflect.Method as input and returns object of Class

private static Class<?> getReturnType(Method method) {
    Type type = ((ParameterizedType)method.getGenericReturnType()).getRawType();
    return getClass(type);
}

This code compiles well but at runtime i get the below exception while casting Type to ParameterizedType.

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Class cannot be cast to java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType

Please suggest. Thanks!