Generics and Class.forName

I would like to create an instance of a specified class using its name. My code is shown below.

I get a compiler warning. Am I doing this the right way? Is it even possible to use the name of a class and get an instance of that type back, as I don't think there is any way of the compiler knowing what the type should be?

public static <T> T create(final String className) {
    try {
        final Class<?> clazz = Class.forName(className);

        //WARNING: Type safety: Unchecked cast from capture#2-of ? to T
        return (T) create(clazz); 
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

public static <T> T create(final Class<T> classToCreate) {
    final Constructor<T> constructor;
    try {
        constructor = classToCreate.getDeclaredConstructor();
        final T result = constructor.newInstance();
        return result;
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Thanks