How to add contents of an arrayList to a JList

Question

Hi,
I am trying to figure out how to add the contents of an arraylist to a Jlist.
Basically I have 3 classes which are as follow:
1. AuctionItems(String name, int bid) which represents an item in auction
2. AuctionItemsFactory which creates AuctionItems and adds them to an arraylist called stock
3. AuctionBidsGui1 which is the interface where the user can see the items in the auction and select them from a JList.
But I dont know how to read the contents of the stock(arraylist) into the JList which is in AuctionBidsGui1. Below are the 3 classes mentioned above
public class AuctionItems {
     String name;
     int bid;
     public AuctionItems(){
          name = null;
          bid = 0;
     public AuctionItems(String name, int bid){
          this.name = name;
          this.bid = bid;
     public String getName(){
          return name;
     public int getBid() {
          return bid;
public class AuctionItemsFactory {
     private ArrayList<AuctionItems> stock;
     int size;
     public AuctionItemsFactory() {
          stock = new ArrayList<AuctionItems>();
     public void addItems(AuctionItems item) {
          stock.add(item);
//removes last element of the arrayList
     public void removeItems() {
          int n = stock.size() - 1;
          stock.remove(n);
     public void printNumOfItems() {
          int n = stock.size();
          System.out.println(n);
     public int numberOfItems(){
          return stock.size();
     public void printItems(){
          for (AuctionItems item : stock) System.out.println(item);
and this one is a small part of the AuctionBidsGui1 class which represents the JList where the list of the items will go.
public void addItemListWidgets() {
          itemsList = new JList();
          itemsList.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.MULTIPLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION);
          itemsList.setLayoutOrientation(JList.VERTICAL);
          itemsList.setVisibleRowCount(10);
          itemsList.setSelectedIndex(0);
          JScrollPane itemsListScroller = new JScrollPane(itemsList); // put the list in the scroller
          itemsListScroller.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
          itemsListScroller.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
          itemsListPanel.add(itemsListScroller);
     }

Answer 1

I know that I have to use the toArray() but i dont know what type of method to use for this because i will need to implement a method in my AuctionItemsFactory class which will copy the contents of the arraylist into an array so then i can call this methos from my AuctionBidGui1 class.
I would appreciate if you could give me a bit more hints.