Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

If I move second enum to separate files it works fine, but the problem is that I got a lot of places in code with many enums in one header and it needs to stay like this. Is there a way to fix this ?

@chaokunyang I don't know how to create a local static class in Java. One option would be to create a module that compiles Scala classes and you could use those classes in your Java project - by ...

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Get the scoop on typesafe enums and learn how to use them properly in switch statements, then get started with Java annotations and meta-annotations types like Target, which you can use to clarify the ...

Writing a Java application (see Android) that consumes a JSON API usually involves mapping the JSON objects to Java classes for use in the software. This is a tedious and repetitive task to say the ...

When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...