Cannot instantiate the type Queue. Why is this?

Question

This is my main method for a stacks/queues assignment. I keep getting an error with my queue, but not my Stack. The stack class seems to be working just fine. I'm completely stuck. It says "cannot instantiate type Queue". Any help would be most appreciated!

 public class mainMeth {

      public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
            File Polish = new File("fILE4INPUT.txt");
            File out = new File("outfile.txt");

            Scanner f = new Scanner(Polish);
            Queue inputQ = new Queue();
            Stack stack2 = new Stack();
            Queue outputQ = new Queue();

            String word;
            Character ch;

            while (f.hasNext()) {
                String myString = f.nextLine();

                for (int count = 0; count < myString.length(); count++) {
                    ch = myString.charAt(count);
                    inputQ.addtoRear(ch);
                }
                while (!inputQ.ismtQ()) {
                    ch = inputQ.remfront();

                    if (isAlpha(ch)) {
                        // System.out.println(ch);
                        outputQ.addtoRear(ch);
                    } else {
                        if (isOperator(ch)) {

                            if (stack2.ismt()) {
                                stack2.push(ch);

                            } else {
                                if (valueOf(ch) > valueOf(stack2.top())) {
                                    stack2.push(ch);
                                } else {
                                    outputQ.addtoRear(stack2.pop());
                                    stack2.push(ch);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                while (!stack2.ismt()) {
                    outputQ.addtoRear(stack2.pop());
                }
                System.out.println(outputQ.toString() + "\n\n");
                while (!outputQ.ismtQ()) {
                    outputQ.remfront();
                }

            }

        }

        public static boolean isAlpha(Character ch) {
            boolean retVal = false;
            if (ch >= 'A' && ch <= 'Z' || ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z')
                retVal = true;


            return (retVal);
        }

        public static boolean isOperator(Character ch) {
            boolean retVal = false;
            if (ch == '+' || ch == '-' || ch == '/' || ch == '*')
                retVal = true;

            return (retVal);
        }

        public static int valueOf(Character ch) {
            int retval = 0;
            if (ch == '/' || ch == '*')
                retval = 2;
            else
                retval = 1;
            return retval;
        }


 }      

Answer 1

In the Interfaces section of the Java docs:

Interfaces cannot be instantiated—they can only be implemented by classes or extended by other interfaces.

Then you can't directly instantiate the interface Queue<E>. But, you still can refer to an object that implements the Queue interface by the type of the interface, like:

// As I saw that you are adding Characters to your queue
Queue<Character> inputQ = new PriorityQueue<Character>();

You can chose the adequate implementation to use regarding your requirements, here is a list of all concrete and known implementing Classes from it's java docs:

ArrayBlockingQueue, ArrayDeque, ConcurrentLinkedDeque, ConcurrentLinkedQueue, DelayQueue, LinkedBlockingDeque, LinkedBlockingQueue, LinkedList, LinkedTransferQueue, PriorityBlockingQueue, PriorityQueue, SynchronousQueue