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How to access other classes from main?

Submitted by titomba on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 23:10.
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Hello everyone!, i have some problems and i would love to find a solution, see i am having a rough time trying to do this.

i have a class like this:

public class Report
{
int current;
public Report()
{
current=1;
memo[] test=new memo[10];
memo[current]=new memo();
}

public void addMemo()
{
  <strong><em>//This is the objective, i simply cant figure out how to create method correctly </em></strong>
}
}
/*So far so good this actually goes through when compiling, the problem comes when i try to call Report from another class, more specifically, from inside a main class.

public class manager
{
Report a; //throws me error of can not find symbol class Report
public static void main(String[] args)
{
a=new Report();//Am i not calling to create an object of class Report?
}
}

I try to run this but always throws me error lines stating:

Can not find symbol class Report
and non-static variable a can not be referenced from static context

Then the really great question is, if i know the Report class exists, how to invoke it from the main method of another class?

I know my other classes work, because i hard coded them and they work, but i need a method to increase the array by one and such method needs to be called from main, but being in a different class, like i wrote previously, always throws me the errors described.

What am i doing wrong? Thank you for any help!