Here I introduce typesafe enums and annotations, two more Java 5 language features designed to enhance the safety and productivity of Java programs.

Unfortunately, Sun does talk about annotations quite a lot, and they don’t appear to have noticed that this particular new language feature is actually a bit ill-conceived. The EJB 3 spec makes heavy ...

End your tour of Java's essential language features with Java 8's method references, interface default and static methods, and three lesser known language updates, then preview new features coming ...

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 ...

Here we see the @Configuration annotation for the first time, which marks a transition from autowired annotation-based Spring to Java-configuration-based Spring.