Please help! Java ARRAYS

I have a Car class, the objects are below:

//The car description.
private String carDescription;
//The customer name.
private String customer;
//The required deposit amount.
public int downPayment;
//The number of days the car is to be rented for.
public int rentalPeriod;
//The daily rental rate of the car.
public int rate;
//The date the car is to hired.
public String dateOfHire;
//The date the car is due to be returned.
public String dateOfReturn;
//The total amount of rent due.
public int totalRent;
//Whether or not the car is currently on loan.
public boolean onLoan;

I now need to make a RentalCompany class with an attribute that is an array list of the Car class objects.

Please help, how do I start this? I am using BlueJ

static List<Car> cars = new ArrayList<Car>();

Or?

Car[] cars;

Thanks for replying...
I tried that and it returns an error message " cannot find symbole - class list"

import it.

How? Sorry, I am very new to Java.

You cannot use lists from the collection framework without importing the into the program. Just "import java.util.*; or just import ArrayList. Check out some tutorials on using arrays. Use google.

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Originally Posted by imsuperman05

static List<Car> cars = new ArrayList<Car>();

Or?

Car[] cars;

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Originally Posted by imsuperman05

static List<Car> cars = new ArrayList<Car>();

Or?

Car[] cars;

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Psht... people need to get up-to-date with Java 7
= new ArrayList<>(); =))

Can you share what has been changed in the Java Collection Framework's List instead of rolling on the floor while others are drowning? Thanks

For those who do not know the recent changes to the collection framework, you can read it online or remember this next time you create objects using the collection
For example,
Instead of saying List<String> lists = new ArrayList<String>()
lists.add("stuff");

You can do it this way like in Ruby language
List<String> lists = ["stuff"];



Anyway, you might want to read more about it because some of the updates might not be as commonly used as you might think.

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Originally Posted by Mr.777

http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...n-feeding.html

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Sorry, wasn't aware. I won't spoon-feed anymore.

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Originally Posted by newbie

Psht... people need to get up-to-date with Java 7
= new ArrayList<>(); =))

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Oh wow, didn't know that lol. Haven't touched Java 7 in a while, just opened on Eclipse 4.1 hehe.

Take into account that using "new" keyboard is very important since it is the way in which Java allocates variables efficiently in computer's memory. In other words: not using this declaration first : ArrayList<String> lists = new ArrayList<String>()
could bring you issues in your program.