Hello friends,happy new year all..
I'm trying writing classes Item to include int Quantity,String name and a new&different&immutable serial number will be produced automaticly for every item...(then being able inherating the Item for sub classes for types of food)
Also i'm trying build a proper class Stock enabling to manage the Items...having array of maximal size 100(not linked list!)...enabling some basic actions as:

public void addItem (Item newItem)
public void removeItem (Item item) 
public String toString ()
public void order (int x)-if quantity of the item less then x,it must be ordered...

I wrote the Item class:(I attached here the classes as well as ZIP)

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Item {
private  String  _name;
private  int _quantity;
private int serial;

    public   Item(int quantity, String  name) {  
        if (quantity>0){
        _name = name;
        _quantity = quantity;} 
        else  
                System.out.println("Quantity must be more than 0");}
                     public Item (int quantity) {
if (quantity>0) {
Scanner getInput = new Scanner(System.in);
_quantity=quantity; 
System.out.println("type a name of Item please");
_name = getInput.nextLine();    
} else 
  System.out.println("Quantity must be more than 0");}

    public String getName() {
        return _name;}
         public int getQuantity() {
             return _quantity;}

    public String toString () {
    NumberFormat fmt = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
    return  (_name + "\t" +_quantity + "\t");}

    public void printItem() {
        System.out.println("Item: "+_name);
        System.out.println("quantity: "+_quantity);

    }
}

and wrote Stock Class as:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Scanner;

import java.util.Scanner;
public class Stock {

 final int MAX_SIZE=100;
private Item[]  itemList=new Item[MAX_SIZE];
String itemName;
int itemQuantity    ;
int i=0;
    public Stock() {
        while (i<MAX_SIZE){
        System.out.println("add a new item name and quantity or type empty or 0 value to quit");
     Scanner getInput = new Scanner(System.in);
     itemName= getInput.nextLine();
    itemQuantity= getInput.nextInt();


     if ((itemName.length()==0) || (itemQuantity==0)||(i+itemQuantity>MAX_SIZE)){
           System.out.println("Illegal Input!-input must be a valid string and more than 0 quantity and not exceed the maximal limitation");    
           break;}


    }}


    // Add item to stock
    public void addItem (Item newItem)    {
        i++;
          while  ((newItem.getName()==null)|| (i>MAX_SIZE)) {
          System.out.print("Illegal Input!");
              break;}  
                 itemList[i]=Item(newItem.getQuantity(),newItem.getName());

           }

 public void removeItem (Item item) {

         for (int k;k<MAX_SIZE;k++)     {
             if (item==itemList[k])
             itemList[i]=Item(0,"");} 

    }

    public String toString () {
        for (int k;k<MAX_SIZE;k++) {       
            system.out.println(itemList[k].getName+"/n"+"/n");
    }

}}

1) So far i compiled the item class ok...but in Item i experience problems with the constructor during running time:public Item(int quantity, String name)...the String working badly...
2)the Stock class i cant bring to proper compilation especialy when getting the lines calling the constructor of Item...and generally i need your help there because i'm totaly lost...how to write it to be able co-working with Item?(i know its still writeen messy,sorry)

Thank you very much...

Post the code in code tags that you think is incorrect, or at least post the compiler errors you are getting.

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