Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using == . This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers ...

Standardmäßig verarbeitet Java die Serialisierung und Deserialisierung von Enumerationen mithilfe der Enum-Klasse, die die Serializable-Schnittstelle implementiert.

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.

Introduction Accessing C++ enums in Java is implemented via a Python script which analyzes the C++ enum and spits out the corresponding Java class. The enum needs to be annotated in a particular way.

If I declare a constant and use that constant in my code, I only have to change the value in one place: where I declare the constant. But, as useful as that feature is from a maintenance point of view ...

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 ...

Decades later, I realize that Art was right. At the time, I only considered constants from the maintenance point of view: If I hardcoded some value into my application then, should that value ever ...