Constructor question - dealing with protected methods

Question

Hi all, I'm trying to run a protected method, got somewhere by making the class a subclass - but not too sure about where to put the constructor for a class I'm trying to use (IQRegister). Can anyone help and point me in the right direction as to what I did wrong?
public class Registration extends IQRegister {
//Create new instance of ConnectionBean
ConnectionBean conBean = new ConnectionBean();
InfoQueryBuilder iqb = new InfoQueryBuilder();
InfoQuery iq;
//IQRegisterBuilder iqRegb = new IQRegisterBuilder();
public Registration( IQRegisterBuilder iqRegb ) {
super( iqRegb );
//This constructor needs to go somewhere that will work>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
IQRegister iqReg = new IQRegister( iqRegb );
public void regUser() {
String server = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter Server address" );
InetAddress inetaddress;
try {
conBean.connect( inetaddress = InetAddress.getByName( server ));
catch( UnknownHostException unknownhostexception ) {
Object aobj[] = {
"Cancel", "OK"
int i = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(null, "Retry Server?", server +
": Not Responding", -1, 2, null, aobj, aobj[1]);
if( i == 1 )
regUser();
System.out.println( "Cannot resolve " + server + ":" + unknownhostexception.toString ());
return;
catch( IOException ioexception ) {
Object aobj1[] = {
"Cancel", "OK"
int j = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog( null, "Cannot Connect to:",
server,-1, 2, null, aobj1, aobj1[1] );
if( j == 1 )
regUser();
System.out.println( "Cannot connect " + server);
return;
System.out.println( "Registering User" );
registrationProcess();
public void registrationProcess () {
try {
//Need to getXMLNS packet method getXMLNS() is protected
iqReg.getXMLNS();
catch ( InstantiationException e ) {
System.out.println( "Error in building Registration packet" );
String username = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter: Username" );
String password = JOptionPane.showInputDialog( "Enter: Password" );
ERROR:
Registration.java:108: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : variable iqReg
location: class Registration
iqReg.getXMLNS();
^
1 error
Thanks again :)

Answer 1

Made some changes to code but getting some varied error here:
Registration.java:31: <identifier> expected
iqReg = new IQRegister( iqRegb );
^
Registration.java:31: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class iqReg
location: class Registration
iqReg = new IQRegister( iqRegb );
^
Registration.java:104: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : variable iqReg
location: class Registration
iqReg.getXMLNS();
^
3 errors
CODE:
public class Registration extends IQRegister {
//Create new instance of ConnectionBean
ConnectionBean conBean = new ConnectionBean();
InfoQueryBuilder iqb = new InfoQueryBuilder();
InfoQuery iq;
//IQRegisterBuilder iqRegb = new IQRegisterBuilder();
//This constructor problem here>>>>>>>>>>>>
iqReg = new IQRegister( iqRegb );
public Registration( IQRegisterBuilder iqRegb ) {
super( iqRegb );
.......same code..... as above....
Thank you so much for the guidance..