help placing rocks in a grid

[coderAmy]

Can someone help me with what i am missing in this code. I can't get it to compile. Thx!
[code=java]
import javax.swing.*;

public class PlaceRocks
{

private static final int GRID_SIZE = 3;
private static final String ROW_PROMPT = "Enter a row from: 0, 1, 2";
private static final String COLUMN_PROMPT =
"Enter a column from: 0, 1, 2";
private static final String DENIED = "This row/column is already taken.";
private static final String ACCEPTED = "Done.";


public static void main(String[] s)
{
boolean[] columns = new boolean[GRID_SIZE];
boolean[] rows = new boolean[GRID_SIZE];


for(int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
{
String inputRow = JOptionPane.sho wInputDialog(RO W_PROMPT);
int rowNumber = Integer.parseIn t(inputRow);

String inputColumn = JOptionPane.sho wInputDialog(CO LUMN_PROMPT);
int columnNumber = Integer.parseIn t(inputColumn);

if (isCellTaken(ro wNumber, columnNumber,
rows, columns))
{
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, DENIED);
}
else
{
rows[rowNumber] = true;
columns[columnNumber] = true;
JOptionPane.sho wMessageDialog( null, ACCEPTED);
}
}
}


private static boolean isCellTaken(row s, columns, row, column)
{
if(rows[row] && columns[column])
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}

}

}[/code]

[JosAH]

Can someone help me with what i am missing in this code. I can't get it to compile. Thx!

The compiler must've spewed out a bit more than "I can't compile this". Copy
and paste the compiler diagnostic message(s) here and we'll see if we can help.

kind regards,

Jos

[coderAmy]

D:\Documents and Settings\amy.as her\My Documents\ICS 141\PlaceRocks. java:43: <identifier> expected
private static boolean isCellTaken(row s, columns, row, column)
^
D:\Documents and Settings\amy.as her\My Documents\ICS 141\PlaceRocks. java:54: ')' expected
}
^
D:\Documents and Settings\amy.as her\My Documents\ICS 141\PlaceRocks. java:43: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class rows
location: class PlaceRocks
private static boolean isCellTaken(row s, columns, row, column)
^
D:\Documents and Settings\amy.as her\My Documents\ICS 141\PlaceRocks. java:28: isCellTaken(row s) in PlaceRocks cannot be applied to (int,int,boolea n[],boolean[])
if (isCellTaken(ro wNumber, columnNumber,
^
D:\Documents and Settings\amy.as her\My Documents\ICS 141\PlaceRocks. java:43: missing method body, or declare abstract
private static boolean isCellTaken(row s, columns, row, column)
^
5 errors

Tool completed with exit code 1

[JosAH]

Your curly brackets and/or parentheses aren't balanced; check them all.

kind regards,

Jos