Besides its usefulness in providing highly readable time unit conversions and besides its usefulness in demonstrating the significant advantages of the Java enum, TimeUnit provides an example of ...

More than once, I have seen code such as the following (without the comments I have added to point out flaws), in which a well-intentioned Java developer has ensured that their favorite Enum ...

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 ...