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 ...

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.

Enums are a powerful feature of Java that allow you to define a set of named constants with optional values and methods. They can make your code more readable, type-safe, and robust. But how do ...

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 ...