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 ...

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 ...

Published in early 1997, " Java Tip 27: Typesafe Constants in C++ and Java" discussed how to create and use typesafe constants (enums) in both Java and C++. Since then, various JavaWorld articles ...