and the design constraints when using enums in applications and how to implement a type-safe enum pattern with code examples wherever appropriate. While enums are great in helping you to write ...

So, for example, when you define an Enum you can associate a credit status of "Excellent" with an underlying value of 1, but not with a value of "EX." Lookup tables are data features that establish a ...

The example above intentionally used the hard-coded 42L used in Joshua Bloch’s Effective Java example of how not to create a serialVersionUID. As the screen snapshot below indicates, this ...

There are some differences, however, that you need to be aware of. For example, in a ProtoBuf every value i in the enumeration must be explicitly assigned a position and, because ProtoBuf depends on ...

The following is a JPA annotated entity that uses the Java enum named Gesture: /* JPA & Hibernate enum mapping example */ package com.mcnz.rps; import javax.persistence.*; @Entity public class ...