Growing Java Arrays

Here is a Java convenience method to append an element to an array (of any kind):

private static <T> T[] appendToArray(T[] array, T element) {
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    T[] newArray = (T[])Array.newInstance(array.getClass().getComponentType(), array.length + 1);
    System.arraycopy(array, 0, newArray, 0, array.length);
    newArray[array.length] = element;
    return newArray;
}