Problem with Class String Variable

[rollei]

Dear all, I'm writing some code, but I run into this problem
I have this class Inventory and ingredient. Within Inventory, there is an ArrayList of ingredients. I also have a function addIngredient in Inventory that adds an ingredient to the ArrayList. My problem is, after adding several ingredients to the ArrayList, each of the names of the Ingredients are all the same.

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Inventory {
	int numIngred;;
	ArrayList ingred = new ArrayList<Ingredient>();
	
	public Inventory() {
		numIngred = 0;
	}

	public int getNumIngred() {

		return numIngred;
	}
	
	public String getIngredientName(int n) {
		return ((Ingredient)ingred.get(n)).getName();
		
	}
	
	public Ingredient getIngredient(int n) {
		return (Ingredient)ingred.get(n);
	}

	public void addIngredient(String iname) {
		numIngred++;
		ingred.add(new Ingredient(iname));
	}
}


import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Ingredient {
	public static String name;

	
	public Ingredient( String str ) {
		name = str;
	}
	
	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}
	
	public void setName(String s) {
		name = s;
		
	}
}

//In some other class's main:
Inventory inven = new Inventory();
inven.addIngredient("Cheese");
inven.addIngredient("Apples");
inven.addIngredient("Carrots");
inven.addIngredient("Peanuts");

But, again, all the ingredient names end up being the last name added, "Peanuts". Am I missing a subtly in passing and setting Strings?

Thank you,
Alex

[Norm]

each of the names of the Ingredients are all the same.

Sounds like you have one object with many references to it.
Or you are using static variables.

[JosAH]

Why is your ´name´ String in the Ingredient class static?

kind regards,

Jos