Illegal Start of an Expression

[ddatta8]

Hi,
I am getting an error "Illegal Start of an Expression" for the statement "private welcomeScreen ws = new welcomeScreen();" in the following code. I am new to Java and it will be really great if anyone can help me with this problem.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

private class welcomeScreen
{
private String studID;
private String password;

welcomeScreen(){
studID = "";
password = "";
}

public void display(){
System.out.println("Welcome to the Student Registration System!");
System.out.println("****************************** *************");
System.out.println("Enter student id:");
System.out.println("Enter password:");
}

public void student_authentication(String studID){
return true;
}
}

public class SRS
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{

private welcomeScreen ws = new welcomeScreen();

ws.display();

if (ws.student_authentication == TRUE){
System.out.println("Great!");
}
else ws.display();


}

}

[CJSLMAN]

welcomeScreen class has the following error:

public [B][COLOR="Red"]void[/COLOR][/B] student_authentication(String studID){
return [COLOR="red"][B]true[/B][/COLOR];}

• The above method is returning a boolean but has void in the method declaration
• Get rid of the "private" indentifier in the class declaration

The SRS class has the following errors:

[B][COLOR="Red"]private[/COLOR][/B] welcomeScreen ws = new welcomeScreen();

• Get rid of the "private" identifier in the above code

ws.student_authentication == TRUE

• TRUE is not defined in the code. If you want to use boolean it should be "true"
• If you're trying to call the student_authentication method, you need to pass it a string (studID) in it's argument. It also returns a boolean

Luck,
CJSL

[Fubarable]

1) Why is your welcomeScreen class private? Since it is not an inner class, this class won't be very useful.
2) You cannot declare a private variable within a method including the main method. Get rid of the private access modifier there.
3) If a method returns a boolean result, it must be declared to return boolean, not void.

Several other errors here. Keep working at it and good luck.

[ddatta8]

Thank you. I have corrected the errors and it works!:)