Departing from traditional practice for JavaWorld’s Tips ‘N Tricks column, I will talk about when not to use a previously suggested trick. Specifically, the typesafe enum construct, covered in JDC ...

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Understanding type compatibility is fundamental to writing good Java programs, but the interplay of variances between Java language elements can seem highly academic to the uninitiated. This article ...

This is a new annotation added in 3.2 that allow users to define the enumerated value freely. I have tried the following code fragment. Specifies that an annotated field of a Java enum type is the ...