java question

[beastdaeast]

I've been working on this program for quite awhile. It's basically an adapter with multiple classes, senders, receivers, main manager, etc where I have to connect messages to a new system back to a legacy system.

One method I'm confused and stuck on is a method that creates a Command Message. here is a synopsis of the code,

/**
* It will have source and destination addresses filled out along with
* path to X File in message payload.
* method will also trigger generation of X file on local file system
* so file can be sent to remote sites.
*/


protected Message packMessage(String anDestAddress)
{
Message aMsg = null;
XFileSender anXFileSender = new XFileSender();

try
{
converttoAddress(anDestAddress);

}
catch(Exception e)
{
Log.Data(Class.Info("Error stuff..." + e.getMessage());
}


}

private Address convertToAddress(String aStringAddress)
{
try
{

theLegacySystem.setAddress((LegacySystem.abc.Address)aStringAddress);
this.anAddress = theLegacySystem.getAddress();
}
catch(error exception stuff)
{

}

return this.aAddress;
}

I'm confused on how to finish the one method and in converting from a String to an LegacySystem Address when I compile it comes back as
"Cannot cast class.java.lang.String to class LegacySystem.abc.Address.

I'm a little confused on how to convert from string into the Address as well as getting the source and destination addresses filled out.

ANy help would be appreciated.

[graviton]

until LegacySystem.abc.Address extends string, you cannt cast it to string.
you will have to write the method convertToAddress that converts a string to an legacy-address in more detail. i have no idea what a legacy-adress is for and how it should be represented as a string. but you will have to parse it.