public Eventz(char event, double rate) //event and rate are both initialized outside of this as public char and public double as well

    {
        this.event = event;
        this.rate = rate;
    }

    public char getEvent()
    {
        return event;
    }

    public double getRate()
    {
        return rate;
    }

Eventz[] someEvents = new Eventz[5];
int x;

for (x=0; x<someEvents.length; x++)
{
    someEvents[x] = new Eventz ('x', 0.0);
    /*This on its own didn't seem to work, so I added the below just in case. */

someEvents[x].event = 'x';
someEvents[x].rate = 0.0;
}
for (x=0; x<someEvents.length; x++)
{
    System.out.println(someEvents[x].getEvent());
System.out.println(someEvents[x].getRate());
}