In Java, enum serialization and deserialization are automatically handled by the default serialization mechanism, leveraging ObjectOutputStream and ObjectInputStream classes.

Most of us who transitioned from C++ to Java missed having an enum in versions of Java prior to J2SE 5. Fortunately, the wait was worth it as the Java enum is far superior to the C++ enum.

```java // Java Program to Demonstrate Getting Values // as an Enumeration of Hashtable class import java.io.*; import java.util.Enumeration; import java.util.Hashtable; // Main class // ...

The Groovy code that follows uses this technique to read the source XML and then writes out a 100% compilable Java enum called AlbumsEnum.java. The Groovy script is shown next.

The Enumeration was originally part of the JDK 1.0 release and was designed to aid developers who needed to loop through Vectors, process HashTable keys or pass data to a SequenceInputStream. While an ...

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 ...