Help populating an array of objects

Question

New here, trying to figure this out.
I'm trying to create an array of objects, then populate the array defining fields. I stripped this down as far as i could to simplify the problem but I get the following error when I compile (i tweaked the carrot placment, formating issues i guess):
PointsTest.java:41: ']' expected
cubeArray[0] = new Point();
^
PointsTest.java:41: invalid method declaration; return type required
cubeArray[0] = new Point();
^
2 errors
My code:
class PointsTest{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
               //So far, this works.
            //convert 3 numbers to point coordinates held in temp variables
            float xT = (Float.valueOf(args[0])).floatValue();
            float yT = (Float.valueOf(args[1])).floatValue();
            float zT = (Float.valueOf(args[2])).floatValue();
            Point point1 = new Point(xT, yT, zT);
            point1.printXYZ(); 
class Point {
    //A BASIC point class
    //fields defined
    float x, y, z;
    //a constructor that sets initial XYZ values
    Point(float startX, float startY, float startZ) {
            x = startX;
            y = startY;
            z = startZ;
    //a no argument constructor for defualt states
    Point () {
        x = 0;
        y = 0;
        z = 0;
    //method
    void printXYZ(){
        System.out.println("coordinates: " + x + " " + y + " " + z);
class Cube{
     Point cubeArray[] =  new Point[9];
     cubeArray[0] = new Point();
}I've looked for answers online without much luck, I'm not worried about using a loop to populate the array at the moment (you can do it one at a time, right?). Didn't see any obvious listings in the java tutorials about arrays of objects. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to put operations inside of a method instead of just floating them around inside the top-level of your Cube class. The errors you are getting are related to the fact that only class data members or methods are supposed to be inside the top-level of a class definition.
Something like this should get you started:
class Cube{
        private Point[] cubeArray;
        public Cube(){
         cubeArray =  new Point[9];
}Regards,
-MF