When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...

Departing from traditional practice for JavaWorld’s Tips ‘N Tricks column, I will talk about when not to use a previously suggested trick. Specifically, the typesafe enum construct, covered in JDC ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

I picked up adding a few meta values to enums a long time ago; I feel they make bounds checking and writing for loops more readable. But gcc has been giving me some grief about it in one way, here's ...