JPA and Hibernate enum mapping. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...

Although it is part of the java.util.concurrent package, the TimeUnit enum is useful in many contexts outside of concurrency.In this post, I look at how the TimeUnit enum can be used even in code ...

We’ll also take a look at java.lang.Enum<E extends Enum<E>>, which is the base class for all typesafe enums. What you’ll learn in this Java tutorial Why use typesafe enums and not enumerated types ...