Why do I get a "cannot resolve symbol"

Question

Hi all,
whenever I run my program it always gives me this error :
Mortgage5.java:14: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class Loan
location: class Mortgage5
Loan theLoan;
^
This program will work in Win 98 and XP but on my other machine running Windows 2000 will not work.
My Mortgage5 class is actually creating an object of another class called Loan which is perfectly fine in other Windows OS but not my 2000, why is that so? I am really puzzled.

Answer 1

Hi Kusek,
here is my code that works on other OS but not 2000.
import java.text.*;
public class Mortgage5
{     public static void main (String args[])
     {     double thePrincipal;
          double theRate;
          int theYears;
          String loanType;
          String theName;
          Loan theLoan;
          Customer theCust = new Customer();
          NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
          theName = Console.readString("Customer Name : ");
          theCust.setName(theName);
          loanType = Console.readString("Loan Type (V/I): ");
          thePrincipal = Console.readDouble
          ("Loan amount (no commas) :");
          theRate = Console.readDouble
          ("Interest rate in % (ex: use 7.5 for 7.5%) :")/100;
          theYears = Console.readInt ("The number of theYears:");
          if (loanType.equals("V")) {
          theLoan = new VariableLoan(thePrincipal, theRate, theYears, theCust);
          theLoan.setPrincipal(thePrincipal);
               theLoan.setRate(theRate);
          theLoan.setYears(theYears);
          else {
          theLoan = new InterestLoan(thePrincipal, theRate, theYears, theCust);
          theLoan.setPrincipal(thePrincipal);
               theLoan.setRate(theRate);
          theLoan.setYears(theYears);
          System.out.println("Customer = "+ theCust.getName());
          System.out.println("Monthly payment = "+ nf.format(theLoan.monthlyPayment()));
          System.out.println("Total Payment = "+ nf.format(theLoan.totalPayment()));
          System.out.println("Total Interest = "+ nf.format(theLoan.totalInterest()));