package com.scheduler.process;

public class Process {
    public enum state {
        NOT_SUBMITTED, SUBMITTED, BLOCKED, READY, RUNNING, COMPLETED 
    }
        private state currentState;

    public state getCurrentState() {
        return currentState;
    }

    public void setCurrentState(state currentState) {
        this.currentState = currentState;
    }

}



package com.scheduler.machine;
import com.scheduler.process.Process;
import com.scheduler.process.Process.state;

public class Machine {
    com.scheduler.process.Process p = new com.scheduler.process.Process();
    state s = state.READY;  //fails if I don't also explicitly import Process.state
    p.setCurrentState(s);  //says I need a declarator id after 's'... this is wrong.
    p.setCurrentState(state.READY);
}

Modified the example to try and direct to the issue. I cannot change the state on this code. Eclipse suggests importing Process.state like I had on my previous example, but this doesn't work either. This allows state s = state.READY but the call to p.setCurrentState(s); fails as does p.setCurrentState(state.READY);