making a POP /remove method in a linkedQueue

[berky]

I am CONVINCED that the reason my program is not working is because I have a faulty linkedqueue, however I cant see what is wrong with it. could someone please look mine over and see whats wrong with it?

 public item_t remove(){
item_t place= rear.item;
//front=null;
//out.printf("%sOMG\n",place);
        if(front==null){
      front=front.link;
          // out.printf("node?");
          }
        if(front==rear){
//out.printf("node?");
        rear=null;
      front=null;
          }
//front=front.link;
//item_t place= front.item;
//out.printf("PORTAL");
//item_t place= front.item;
 
return place;
    }