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POAll elements of An ArrayList change when a new one is added?
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copied!<p>First of all, apologies for not being able to supply any sourcecode. My project is pretty big and linking everything would be impractical, and I have not been able to scale down the problem which is exceedingly annoying. I will do my best to explain it here.</p> <p>I am dynamically creating new instances of a class on each loop in my code. This instance is dynamically given a couple of properties while in the loop, 'name' for example. At the end of each loop, the newly generated instance is added to an ArrayList held in a another, 3rd, class. </p> <p>The problem however is that when a new element is added, for whatever reason, all previous elements change to match exactly the latest. My guess is that the ArrayList is creating a reference to the dynamically created element so that whenever it changes, they all change, but I do not know how to fix this.</p> <p>I would be grateful for any advice and apologies again for the quality of this explanation. I will post any specific piece of the code you may wish to see</p> <p>As Requested - XmlHandler.java - <a href="http://pastebin.com/mGmWt1RD" rel="noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/mGmWt1RD</a> ParsedDataSet.java = <a href="http://pastebin.com/k1xb3KBe" rel="noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/k1xb3KBe</a> Content.java = <a href="http://pastebin.com/UxiL2f9q" rel="noreferrer">http://pastebin.com/UxiL2f9q</a></p> <p>Just to cut down on your comprehension time - The project is an epub reader. The XMLHandler is being called from a SAX parser in another class not shown. The XMLHandler is used 3 different times for 3 different XML sets so there is some clutter there. </p> <p>The problem lies with the 'toc' ArrayList. The 'toc', or TableOfContents, holds the Contents instances to be referenced later (not shown). I am trying to pass data each new instance of 'Content' and then pass that into the static ArrayList</p>

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