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 ...

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 ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...