The Java enum is a powerful feature of the language that allows one to elegantly represent finite values and to provide convenient access to characteristics of those finite values.

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 ...