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 ...

How it’s supposed to work The typesafe Java enum concept basically replaces the set of primitive constants above with a set of static final object references encapsulated in a class that ...

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 ...