How to store multiple data in one aray at one go?

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Hi i am creating a Recipe Cooking Book and i have got a recipe class, ingredient class, equipment class and jFORM GUI. the gui form will have a list and it will contain couple of equipments. the user should be able to select more than 1 equipments which would use the pass- by - value to the recipe class and it will be passed to equipment class.
The problem that encounter is that when i have to select multiple values from list, it should store all selected equipments to array.
This is where i am stuck as i don't know how to store couple of equipment at one creation.
This is my recipe constructor in recipe class
public Recipe(int aRecipeID, String aRecipeName, String aCountryofOrigin,
                  String aType, String aPreparationTime, String aCookingTime,
                  String aRecipeDescription, String aProcedure,
                   ClsEquipment[] aequipment, String aImage1, String aImage2,
                  String aImage3) {
        Create(aRecipeID, aRecipeName, aCountryofOrigin, aType,
               aPreparationTime, aCookingTime, aRecipeDescription, aProcedure,
               aequipment, aImage1, aImage2, aImage3);
    public void Create(int aRecipeID, String aRecipeName,
                       String aCountryofOrigin, String aType,
                       String aPreparationTime, String aCookingTime,
                       String aRecipeDescription, String aProcedure,
                        ClsEquipment[] aequipment, String aImage1, String aImage2,
                       String aImage3) {
        RecipeID = aRecipeID;
        RecipeName = aRecipeName;
        CountryofOrigin = aCountryofOrigin;
        Type = aType;
        PreparationTime = aPreparationTime;
        CookingTime = aCookingTime;
        RecipeDescription = aRecipeDescription;
        Procedure = aProcedure;
        *equipment[j] = aequipment[k];*
        Image1 = aImage1;
        Image2 = aImage2;
        Image3 = aImage3;
this is The command that i have in Jform gui
    public void jRcreateButton_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        int i=0;
myRecipe.Create(Integer.parseInt(jRidTextField.getText()),jRnameTextField.getText(),jRcountryTextField.getText(),jRtypeTextField.getText(),jRptimeTextField.getText(),jRctimeTextField.getText(),jRdescriptionTextArea.getText(), jRprocedureTextArea.getText(),new ClsEquipment(jAEequipmentList.getSelectedValues()),jRimage1TextField.getText(),jRimage2TextField.getText(),jRimage3TextField.getText());
Let me conclude what i am trying to do. Basically i want the user to select more than 1 equipments from the List and the user should also input other recipe data. once this is done, the should click on create.
when creating one recipe, u need more than 1 equipment so that created recipe should store selected equipments, which i will later on retrieve  and display on screen.
can u please guide me where i am goin wrong and how i could fix it.
thank you in advance
Edited by: JAVABABY on Feb 18, 2008 8:40 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Answer 1

       *equipment[j] = aequipment[k];*JList's getSelectedValues() method returns an array of Objects, so if you wanted to store it into another Object[] reference, you'd just use
equipment = aequipment;But, you are storing it as an Equipment array, so you'll need to loop over the Object array and cast each element to an Equipment reference, and store it into the Equipment array. Something like this:
equipment = new Equipment[aequipment.length];
for (each element x in aequipment) {
    equipment[x] = (Equipment)aequipment[x];
}