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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...