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Help Programming in Java with Super Class

887994Sep 13 2011 — edited Sep 13 2011
Ok I am a programming student and need help with a problem, I already have most of it (so I don't need you guys to do my hw :P) but I am having problems with am, and I am not even sure if I am doing it right.

Problem: (The Person, Sruden, Employee, Faculty, and Staff classes) Design a class named Person and its two subclasses named Student and Employee. Make Faculty and Staff subclasses of Employee. A person has a name, address, phone number, and email address. A student has a class status (freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior). Define the status as a constant. An employee has an office, salary, date hired. Define a class named MyDate that contains the fields year, month, and day. A faculty member has office hours and a rank. A staff member has a title. Overridde the toString method in each class to display the class name and the person's name.
Draw the UML diagram for classes. Implement the classes. Write a tes program that creates a Person, Student, Employee, Faculty, and Staff, and invokes their toString() methods.

Here is What I have so far: (I have 6 classes + 1 test file so 7 different files)
public class person {
 
private String name, address, phone, email;

 public person(){
 }

 public person(String name, String address, String phone, String email){
 this.name = name;
 this.address = address;
 this.phone = phone;
 this.email = email;
 }

 public String getName(){
 return name;
 }

 public void setName(String name){
 this.name = name;
 }

 public String getAddress(){
 return address;
 }

 public void setAddress(String address){
 this.address = address;
 }

 public String getPhone(){
 return phone;
 }

 public void setPhone(String phone){
 this.phone = phone;
 }

 public String getEmail(){
 return phone;
 }

 public void setEmail(String email){
 this.email = email;
 }

 @Override
 public String toString(){
 return getClass().getName() + "\n" + name;
 }
 }
public class student extends person{
 
private final String CLASS_STATUS;

 public student(String CLASS_STATUS){
 this.CLASS_STATUS =CLASS_STATUS;
 }
 public String getClassStatus(){
 return CLASS_STATUS;
 }
 }
public class employee extends person{
 private String office,salary;
 private MyDate DATE_HIRED;

 public employee(){
 }

 public employee(String office, String salary, MyDate DATE_HIRED){
 this.office = office;
 this.salary = salary;
 this.DATE_HIRED = DATE_HIRED;
 }
 public String office(){
 return office;
 }

 public void setOffice(String office){
 this.office = office;
 }

 public String getSalary(){
 return salary;
 }

 public void setSalary(String salary){
 this.salary = salary;
 }

 public MyDate getMyDate(){
 return DATE_HIRED;
 }
 }
public class MyDate{
 private int month, day, year;
 
public MyDate(int month, int day, int year){
 this.day = day;
 this.month =month;
 this.year = year; 
}
 }
public class faculty extends employee {
 private String office_hours, rank;
 public faculty(){
 }

 public faculty(String office_hours, String rank){
 this.office_hours = office_hours;
 this.rank = rank;
 }
 public String getOfficeHours(){
 return office_hours;
 }

 public void setOfficeHours(String office_hours){
 this.office_hours = office_hours;
 }

 public String getRank(){
 return rank;
 }

 public void setRank(String rank){
 this.rank = rank;
 }
 }
public class staff extends employee{
 private String title;
 
public staff(){
 }

 public staff(String title){
 this.title = title;
 }

 public String getTitle(){
 return title;
 }
 
public void setTitle(String title){
 this.title =title;
 }
 }
Ok, here is where I have the problem, I cannot run my test program because I have errors which is (cannot find symbol) I am not sure what I am doing wrong and how to fix it, I am not sure if it is a problem with the classes or with the test program. (And mention if you see any other problems thanks)
public class test {
 
/**
 * @param args the command line arguments
 */

    public static void main(String[] args) {
   
 Person person = new Person("John Doe", "123 Somewhere", "415-555-1212", "johndoe@somewhere.com");
 Person student = new Student("Mary Jane", "555 School Street", "650-555-1212", "mj@abc.com", "junior");
 Person employee = new Employee("Tom Jones", "777 B Street", "408-888-9999", "tj@xyz.com");
 Person faculty = new Faculty("Jill Johnson", "999 Park Ave", "925-222-3333", "jj@abcxyz.com");
 Person staff = new Staff("Jack I. Box", "21 Jump Street", "707-212-1112", "jib@jack.com");
 
System.out.println(person.toString() + "\n");
 System.out.println(student.toString() + "\n");
 System.out.println(employee.toString() + "\n");
 System.out.println(faculty.toString() + "\n");
 System.out.println(staff.toString() + "\n");
}
}
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