Need Help With Java - ASCII to HEX Apache Common Codecs

Hello guys. In NetBeans IDE, I've placed common-codec-1.10.jar in my libraries. Whenever placing this method in my code

Code:


public static String toHex(String ascii)
 {
 return Hex.encodeHexString(text.getBytes());
 }


It tells me that class, enum, or interface expected, and whenever placing
return Hex.encodeHexString(text.getBytes()); in my code, it makes me import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex;
It tells me I need to change method return type to Hex, and it doesn't work for me. I got this information from here: http://www.bullywiihacks.com/t4108-ascii-hex-dec-conversions#22788

How would I use the above code to get Text From a Text Field and then convert the Text Values to Hex, and then print them?
I assume after I get the code to work, I can place said HEX in a string, store different parts of it in variables, and then have it print where I need to. This will basically be finishing my entire program(except the comboboxes, I'll get to that later) as I already got Dec to Hex Conversion and Dec to Bin conversion thanks to these lines of code:

Code:


Integer.toString(variable , X)
X = 2 or 16 depending on which value I needed to return


Thanks for replying, and sorry for being a newb.

I solved my own problem! Although it required me making tons of if...else if statements and declaring over 100 variables, I created my own little ASCII to Hex Converter inside of my program. It sucked, but it'll work!

Lol, there are libraries for all these things of course so you literally don't have to do anything.

I knew that, I just didn't know how to use the function after implementing the library. I got impatient waiting, and was antsy to finish the program, so I just made it myself :p