Problem declaring new Class instance

Question

I would appreciate your help, I am new to programming & decided to learn Java.
The two programs I have tried to write myself have not compiled for the same error:
Javac tells me that it cannot resolve the " = new " syntax, it sees NEW as a variable.
Here is the code for the latest:
public class DBQuery1 {
     String username, password;
     boolean getOut = false;
public class PassDB extends javax.swing.JFrame implements ActionListener {
     JTextField uname = new JTextField(10);
     JPasswordField pword = new JPasswordField(10);
     // codePhrase.setEchoChar('*');
     public PassDB() {
          super("duBe's database logon");
          setSize(260, 160);
          setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          JPanel pane = new JPanel();
          JLabel unameLabel = new JLabel ("Username: ");
          JLabel pwordLabel = new JLabel ("Password: ");
          JButton submit = new JButton("OK");
          submit.addActionListener(this);
          pane.add(unameLabel);
          pane.add(uname);
          pane.add(pwordLabel);
          pane.add(pword);
          pane.add(submit);
          setContentPane(pane);
          setVisible(true);
          if (getOut == true)
               PassDB.close();
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
          PassDB clicked = (PassDB)evt.getSource();
          username = uname.getText();
          password = pword.getText();
          getOut = true;
     public static void main(String[] arguments) {
          PassDB UPass = new PassDB();
it goes on, but the problem seems to be with the declaration of " UPass ".
There are other problems with this code that I cannot fix at the moment, but I'll ask those questions when I get this problem fixed.
Any help will be much appreciated, I know it is something silly I have done, but I can't find the problem myself.
duBe

Answer 1

The two programs I have tried to write myself have not
compiled for the same error:
Javac tells me that it cannot resolve the " = new "
syntax, it sees NEW as a variable.It would be interesting to see the error message you are getting - what you have described sounds rather odd - I would expect an error along the lines of "unqualified enclosing instance" or "this can not be referenced from a static context".
You have declared PassDB as an inner class (it is nested inside another class and is not declared static). As somebody else has already said, if you are new to Java, you might be better not doing that for now.
To instantiate an inner class, you need an instance of the deepest nested lexically enclosing class. I'm not going to go into detail about that in the New To Java Technology forum, but if you don't already know or understand that, then perhaps inner classes are too much to be tackling right now.
The syntax for instantiating PassDB is x.new PassDB(), where x is an instance of DBQuery1. Thus new DBQuery1().new PassDB() should compile (though it might not be want you really want). Another option open to you is to use static nested classes - just declare the PassDB class static, and treat it as you would any other class (though now you won't be able to access the non-static fields of DBQuery1 directly)