Abstract: Java 1.5 introduces several new features that offer significant improvements over older Java technology. In this paper we consider the new enum construct, which provides language support for ...

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 ...

I am working on a project with a shared protobuf definition between all clients and the server. Therefore, different (Android) app versions on the user devices use different versions of our protobuf ...

Abstract: Statechart, which is one of the important diagrams in Unified Modeling Language (UML), represents reactive behavior of a class of objects. Implementing statecharts has been difficult for ...

Encountered this issue while working on apache/beam#4672. I haven't had time to create a minimal self-contained reproducible example, but the gist of the issue is as follows. I have a message that ...

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 ...

I picked up adding a few meta values to enums a long time ago; I feel they make bounds checking and writing for loops more readable. But gcc has been giving me some grief about it in one way, here's ...

More than once, I have seen code such as the following (without the comments I have added to point out flaws), in which a well-intentioned Java developer has ensured that their favorite Enum ...