Generic method in Java without generic argument

In C# I can do actually this:

//This is C#
static T SomeMethod<T>() where T:new()
{
  Console.WriteLine("Typeof T: "+typeof(T));
  return new T();
}

//And call the method here
SomeMethod<SomeClassName>();

But for some reason I can't get it to work in Java.

The thing I want to do is, to create a static method on a superclass, so the subclasses can be converted to XML.

//This is Java, but doesn't work
public static T fromXml<T>(String xml) {
  try {
    JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(T.class);
    Unmarshaller um = context.createUnmarshaller();
    return (T)um.unmarshal(new StringReader(xml));
  } catch (JAXBException je) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Error interpreting XML response", je);
  }
}

//Also the call doesn't work...
fromXml<SomeSubObject>("<xml/>");