I am trying to use a vector to hold my classes. These classes inherit methods from another class and have their own methods as well. What I am having trouble with is using the vector with objects to call the methods from the class within the object. I thought it would be something like:

public static void vSort(Vector<Object> vector) {
vector[0].generate();
}

with generate being a custom method i created with the student class within the object.

A better example

public class Method {
protected String name;

public void method() {
// some code
}
}
public class Student extends Method {
protected String last;

public void setUp() {
// some code
}
}
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) 
{
Vector<Object> vector = new Vector<Object>();
Student stu = new Student(); // pretend this generates something

vector.add(stu);

}

The problem i am running into is there are many classes like student that build on Method. If i cant use Object that is fine with me but i need to access the code within the Method class.