Enthuware

I read this about thread's state,
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/ap ... State.html

and the answer for the question is a little bit confused

You are right, it looks inconsistent with API. However, the states in the API are from a different perspective. They are the valid values for Thread.State enum (that is why they have the same state for Runnable and Running). While the question is talking from a conceptual perspective.

HTH,
Paul.