constructors with arguments calling constructors with arguments

I am new to this forum and I am desperate

I am going batty with what must be a simple problem.
I have a Company class and an Employee class. I also have a Project class that contains main() and instantiates the constructors of Company and Employee. From Project I can successfully get and set values of the private variables of the Company and Employee class. What I cannot figure out how to do is create a constructor and instantiate the constructor so that I can create a Company object within the Employee class.
Below is a snippet of the Company class:
public class Company
{ //beginning of Company class

//declare private variables and initialize values to empty strings
private String name = "";
private String address = "";
private String city = "";
private String state = "";
private String zip = "";

//constructor method
public Company()
{
}

public Company(String inName, String inAddress, String inCity,
String inState, String inZip)
{
name = inName;
address = inAddress;
city = inCity;
state = inState;
zip = inZip;
}

//define accessor methods for private local variables
public String getName()
{
return name;
}

public String getAddress()
{
return address;
}

public String getCity()
{
return city;
}

public String getState()
{
return state;
}

public String getZip()
{
return zip;
}
//end accessor methods

//begin mutator methods for private local variables
public void setName(String inName)
{
name=inName;
}

public void setAddress(String inAddress)
{
address=inAddress;
}

public void setCity(String inCity)
{
city=inCity;
}

public void setState(String inState)
{
state=inState;
}

public void setZip(String inZip)
{
zip=inZip;
}
//end mutator methods

} //end of Company class
Here is a snippet of the Employee Class:
public class Employee
{ //begin Employee class

//declare private variables and initialize values
private String firstName = "";
private String lastName = "";
private short seniority = 0;
private double baseSalary = 500.0;
private String address = "";
private String city = "";
private String state = "";
private String zip = "";
private Company company;

//constructor methods

public Employee(String inFirstName, String inLastName, short inSeniority,
double inBaseSalary, String inAddress, String inCity,
String inState, String inZip, Company inCompany)
{
firstName = inFirstName;
lastName = inLastName;
seniority = inSeniority;
baseSalary = inBaseSalary;
address = inAddress;
city = inCity;
state = inState;
zip = inZip;
company = inCompany;
}

//define accessor methods for private local variables
public String getFirstName()
{
return firstName;
}

public String getLastName()
{
return lastName;
}

public String getAddress()
{
return address;
}

public String getCity()
{
return city;
}

public String getState()
{
return state;
}

public String getZip()
{
return zip;
}

public short getSeniority()
{
return seniority;
}

public double getBaseSalary()
{
return baseSalary;
}

public Company getCompany()
{
return company;
}

//end accessor methods

//begin mutator methods for private local variables
public void setFirstName(String inFirstName)
{
firstName=inFirstName;
}

public void setLastName(String inLastName)
{
lastName=inLastName;
}

public void setAddress(String inAddress)
{
address=inAddress;
}

public void setCity(String inCity)
{
city=inCity;
}

public void setState(String inState)
{
state=inState;
}

public void setZip(String inZip)
{
zip=inZip;
}

public void setSeniority(short inSeniority)
{
seniority=inSeniority;
}
public void setBaseSalary(double inBaseSalary)
{
baseSalary=inBaseSalary;
}

public void setCompany(Company inCompany)
{
company = inCompany;
}

//end mutator methods
}//end Employee class
Now what I would like to do in Project is instantiate a Company object inside an Employee object so that I could do the following:
//create new Employee object
//this is obviously wrong, but I can figure out what to do, empCompany is
//supposed to instantiate a Company object and all its arguments

Employee salesEmployee = new Employee(empFirstName, empLastName,
empSeniority, empBaseSalary, empAddress, empCity, empState, empZip, empCompany);
salesEmployee.setCompany().setName();
salesEmployee.getCompany().getName();
Thanks in advance. If this is unclear it is due to no sleep in 48 hours, please just ask if you need clarification
Thanks
Dan

Hi -
I don't know if got you right. But what you can do is - within the constructor of the employee class, you could call the constructor of the company class -
//pass whatever arguments you want to the employee constructor
public Employee( Company cmp){
cmp = new Company(String inName, String inAddress, String inCity,
String inState, String inZip);
// other stuff
}

Ok I tried that before and I just tried it again. I get an error when I try to build the Employee Class. Below is a snippet of what I did to the Employee constructor. All other code has remained unchanged:
public Employee(String inFirstName, String inLastName, short inSeniority,
double inBaseSalary, String inAddress, String inCity,
String inState, String inZip, Company inCompany)
{
firstName = inFirstName;
lastName = inLastName;
seniority = inSeniority;
baseSalary = inBaseSalary;
address = inAddress;
city = inCity;
state = inState;
zip = inZip;
inCompany = new Company(String inName, String inAddress, String inCity, String inState, String inZip);
}
I get 2 errors

This is driving me nuts. I am taking a Java course and I haven't had any problems with any assignment till now. Thanks
Dan
[ April 16, 2004: Message edited by: Dan Taylor ]
[ April 16, 2004: Message edited by: Dan Taylor ]

Heyy if thats the code you exactly wrote in the constructor -
inCompany = new Company(String inName, String inAddress, String inCity, String inState, String inZip);
change it to
inCompany = new Company(inName, inAddress,inCity, inState,inZip);
don't mention the argument types. try that out and see if you still get errors.

Radha
thanks that solved the constructor in the Employee class. How would I instantiate the object?
I tried this:

But I get this build error

[ April 16, 2004: Message edited by: Dan Taylor ]

I have determined that I can execute
System.out.println(salesEmployee.getCompany().getName());
And it works
So my getCompany() method works inside the salesEmployee object but my setCompany() method gives me the error I mentioned in the last post. My setCompany() code is listed in the Employee class file snippet listed in my first post.

Dan -
You are getting that error because, set company method in your code takes and argument Company but the way you are using it is without arguments like
salesEmployee.setCompany().setName(MyInput.readString());
INSTEAD,
send an object of Company in that made. If cmp is an object of the company, use
salesEmployee.setCompany(cmp).setName(MyInput.readString());
That should solve the problem.

I get an error stating that 'void cannot be dereferenced'

Try this one:

First, get a company object; second, perform setXY() on it.
[ April 17, 2004: Message edited by: Tobias Hess ]

Thanks
I actually figured that out late last night.
Dan