Consolidating Book objects

Question

I'm an amateur programmer trying to write a fairly basic java application. Please excuse me if my terminology and/or code is sloppy. I've tried searching for this answer on a few forums (including this one) but can't seem to find a solution. I'm hoping someone here might recognize what I'm missing.
In a nutshell I have an array of JTextPane objects which I'm attempting to consolidate into a single Book object to facilitate printing or exporting to a pdf. I'm attempting to create a Book from each JTextPane, then appending each Book object to one 'master' Book object.
The problem is that the 'master' Book is incomplete. It contains the correct number of pages, but only content from the first Book is included. The remaining pages are blank. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Book _compiledBook = new Book(); //Create the 'master' book
//Program specific code.  Section objects house several objects including the JTextPanes I'm consolidating
ArrayList<Section> _sectionArray = TemplateGUI._sectionManager.getSectionArray();
//Cycle through my section object array
for (int $i=0; $i < _sectionArray.size(); $i++) {
        //Pull the JTextPane for each section
     JTextPane _targetPane = _sectionArray.get($i).getJTextPane();
        //Create a new book using the JTextPane, for simplicity's sake I have not included code for
        //the method that creates the Book object.  I have been able to test the code and confirm
        //that every Book object is correctly assembled at this point
     Book _newBook = createBook(_targetPane);
         //For each page in this Book
        for (int $j=0; $j < _newBook.getNumberOfPages(); $j++) {
                    //Append the page to the 'master' Book object
              _compiledBook.append(_newBook.getPrintable($j), _newBook.getPageFormat($j));
}

Answer 1

hi to all. i wanna create a vector which only is
consisted of objects of a previously created book
class. but when i use the constructor Vector books=new
Vector (Book c);
it gives error. what is the correct way to do this? The two replys are both helpful correct but lack documentation. What you want to do requires two steps.
The first step is to create a Vector object.
Vector books = new Vector();The second step is to load that object with the set of book objects. For each book object in the set, say with a for loop:
books.add(Book c);Now the Vector object "books" has a set of Book objects.