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can not ArrayList to add

Why will my code not compile error with the add to arraylist.
The Class that can not be chage 
 
***********************************************************************/
public class Book
{
 
  private String title;				// Book title
  private String authorLastName;    // Book author's last name
  private String authorFirstName;   // Book author's first name
  private int    quantity;    		// Books in stock
  private double  price; 			// Book price
 
//**********************************************************
 
  // Constructor
 
  public Book(String title, String lastName, String firstName, int quantity, double price) {
    this.setTitle(title);
    this.setAuthorLastName(lastName);
    this.setAuthorFirstName(firstName);
    this.setQuantity(quantity);
    this.setPrice(price);
  } // end constructor
 
//**********************************************************
 
  // Accesors
 
  public String getTitle() {
    return this.title;
  } // end getTitle
 
  public String getAuthorLastName() {
    return this.authorLastName;
  } // end getAuthorLastName
 
  public String getAuthorFirstName() {
    return this.authorFirstName;
  } // end getAuthorFirstName
 
  public int getQuantity() {
    return this.quantity;
  } // end getQuantity
 
  public double getPrice() {
    return this.price;
  } // end getPrice
 
//**********************************************************
 
  // Mutators
 
  public void setTitle(String title) {
    this.title = title;
  } // end setTitle
 
  public void setAuthorLastName(String lastName) {
    this.authorLastName = lastName;
  } // end setAuthorLastName
 
  public void setAuthorFirstName(String firstName) {
    this.authorFirstName = firstName;
  } // end setAuthorFirstName
 
  public void setQuantity(int quantity) {
    this.quantity = quantity;
  } // end setPrice
 
  public void setPrice(double price) {
    this.price = price;
  } // end setPrice
 
  //*********************************************************
 
} // end class Book
 
########################################################################
Class Driver
/**********************************************************
*Author: Joshua.vangulden
*File Name: BookDriver.java
*CS219 HW#4
*
*This program is to help add new books, Author name and
*the price.
**********************************************************/
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
 
public class BookDriver {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
 
/*************raw data for input**************/
 
		String [] tittle = {"Band of Brothers", "Beloved", "Catch-22", "East of Eden",
							"Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire", "Of Mice and Men",
							"The Catcher in the Rye", "The Grapes Of Wrath",
							"To Kill a Mockingbird"}; //name of book
		String [] lname = {"Ambrose", "Morrison", "Heller", "Steinbeck", "Rowling",
						"Steinbeck", "Salinger", "Steinbeck", "Lee"} ; // Author Last Name
		String [] fname = {"Stephen E.", "Toni", "Joseph", "John", "J.K.", "John", "J.D.",
						"John", "Harper"} ; // Author first Name
		int [] qty = {10, 23, 12, 45, 2, 13, 11, 17, 8} ; // numbers of books in store
		double [] price = {9.60, 12.95, 12.00, 12.95, 18.16, 6.95, 5.99, 13.00, 18.00}; // price of each book
		//Book books;
 
/******* Sort the book by Author last name ********/
 
        ArrayList <Book> books = new ArrayList <Book>();//Array list of Book lists
 
        books.add("Band of Brothers", "Ambrose", "Stephen E.", 10, 9.60);
 
 
	  	// Arrays.sort();
 
 
 
 
 
 
/******** print to screen ************/
 
		System.out.println ("                           Book Report. Sorted by author");
		System.out.println (" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
		System.out.println ("	Title				Last Name   First Name    Qty     Price");
		System.out.println (" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
 
		for(int i=0; i<qty.length; i++){
			System.out.printf("%-40s%-12s%-12s%5d%10.2f\n", tittle[i], lname[i], fname[i], qty[i], price[i]);
		}// end i for loop
 
		System.out.println();
 
  } // end main
} // end class SalesManagerDriver

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CEHJ is corect:

this should be changed:

books.add(new Book("Band of Brothers", "Ambrose", "Stephen E.", 10, 9.60));

You should be creating the new bean before you add it to ArrayList.
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thx I be up all night trying to get this to work
:-)

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that work grate thx but what is bean?