Departing from traditional practice for JavaWorld’s Tips ‘N Tricks column, I will talk about when not to use a previously suggested trick. Specifically, the typesafe enum construct, covered in JDC ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

The long wait was worth it because the Java enum is much more useful and powerful than its C++ counterpart. Although the Java enum can be used with any Java collection, its full power is best ...