I am working on making a lot of my utility apps run on linux
(trying to make the switch from windows)

well i have gotten so used to C# and .net that i wanted to find a comparable language that works on other OS's

after examining code examples it looks like java and c# are pretty similar. but I'm having trouble with a few oddities, in this case
Collections

what I am trying to accomplish is:
1) Create a class with a bunch of properties and methods ...
2) Create a collection of the above class
3) Get the value of any property or call methods from any class in the collection

1 & 2 i believe i have correct.
but 3 is where i am stumped

in C# i am used to doing 3 in this manner:

// 1) Class animal
public class animal{
 public String Name;
 public String Type;
 ...

 public animal(String name, String type){
  this.Name = name;
  this.Type = type;
 }
}

// 2) Create a collection of animals
Collection<animal> Animals = new Collection<animal>();

// Assign values
Animals.add(new animal("Bill", "Duck"));
Animals.add(new animal("Fred", "Dog"));
Animals.add(new animal("Jasmine", "Cat"));
Animals.add(new animal("Jannet", "Rhino"));

/*******************************
 * problem is here *************
 *******************************/
// 3) Use the data

String MyPetName = Animals[2].Name;
// C#: assigns the value of the 3rd element in the
// Collection of animals' Name property
// "Jasmine"

how would i do the above in java?
i cannot find a way to access the members of the objects inside the collection in java. I have searched tutorials and i couldn't find anything that made sense to me. none of the examples I found involved collections of classes.

any help would be grand :)

sorry for the long post

Answered my own question,

or at least found a work around

i just found out that

for( : ){}

is a foreach() loop :) oh joy i was looking for this loop :D

so by doing

for(animal anml : Animals){
 somethingsomthing = anml.Name;
}

and i just zip thru the collection that way

hope this helps anyone else that was confused as well