I've been driving my instructor crazy and thought I would try you guys for awhile. I can not comprehend how to pass values to my 2D array, "theSimulation". I'm only supplying the code for the class that is affected by this-the error is occuring at the very bottom and i've tried everything I can think of but to no avail--any help or advice is greatly appreciated

public class Colony
{

/*************
* attributes
************/

/** the 2-D array of ColonyNode objects */
private static ColonyNode[][] theColony;

/** colony height, in ColonyNodes */
private int height;

/** colony width, in ColonyNodes */
private int width;

/** the view used by this Colony */
private ColonyView colonyView;

/** create a 2D array of ColonyNode objects */
private ColonyNode theSimulation[][] = new ColonyNode[27][27]; //creates 2D array

private int x;
private int y;

/**
/***************
* constructors
**************/


/**
* Create a new Colony.
*
* @param colonyHeight: height of Colony, measured in ColonyNodes
* @param colonyWidth: width of Colony, measured in ColonyNodes
* @param view: the ColonyView this Colony will use
*/
public Colony(int colonyHeight, int colonyWidth, ColonyView view)
{
// set height and width
height = colonyHeight;
width = colonyWidth;

// set view
colonyView = view;

// create the ColonyNode objects comprising this Colony
buildColony();
}


/**********
* methods
*********/


/**
* Build the colony.
*/
private void buildColony()
{
// stores current ColonyNode
ColonyNode currentNode;

// stores ColonyNodeView for current ColonyNode
ColonyNodeView currentNodeView;

// create nodes
for (x = 0; x < width; x++)
{
for (y = 0; y < height; y++)
{
// create next node
currentNode = new ColonyNode(x,y,0,0,0,0,0,0);

// create a ColonyNode View for the current ColonyNode
currentNodeView = new ColonyNodeView();

// give current ColonyNode a reference to its ColonyNodeView
currentNode.setView(currentNodeView);

// add the current ColonyNodeView to the Colonyview
colonyView.addColonyNodeView(currentNodeView, x, y);

//add the current NodeView to the Simulation Array
addColonyView(currentNode, x, y);

//create relationship for Simulation class
//Simulation.addSimulationColonyNodeView(x, y);

// this is only here to prove the colony has been created;
// DO NOT make any nodes visible here
//****Move this to Simulation class
//currentNodeView.showNode();
//initialize colony to show only the start-up nodes
if
(x >= 12 && x <=14 && y >= 12 && y <=14)
currentNodeView.showNode();
else
currentNodeView.hideNode();

} //end nested for loop
} //end for
} //end buildColony


public void addColonyNode(ColonyNode node, int x, int y)
{
//theSimulation[][]= x,y;(this code commented out)
theSimulation[][]= currentNode; <<<<<<<<<<<<<ERROR HERE
}// end addColonyNode method
}