Instantiating a new Object

[Thumper872]

I was wondering... If you have a main function in a class, and then have functions in that class that instantiate a new structure defined in another class, can you work on the new structure while you're in main? Here's an example I've compressed to show what I'm trying to do:

import java.io*;
import java.lang*;
import java.util*;

public class ossim{
   public static int main(String args[]){
      functionCaller();

      /* Can you now work on the new PCB "hello" structure here */
      /* such as setting hello.PID = 1 ? */

      return 0;
   }

   public static void functionCaller(){   /* instantiate PCB */
      PCB hello = new PCB();
   }
}

class PCB{
  int PID;        /* process id number */
  int priority;   /* priority of process */
  String statusType;
  LinkedList statusList = new LinkedList();
  int[] crTree = new int[10];
  LinkedList otherResources = new LinkedList();
}

Any suggestions?

[rockyrak]

Hi,

You cannot do that. Just because the life of the Class object you have created will die after the block it exists is finished.

So, you cannot do that. But in case, if you delcared an object inside main, you can do like that.

Is that ok?

Ram

[Thumper872]

Thanks