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 ...

Welcome to "Mastering Enum in Java," a comprehensive series designed to demystify one of Java's powerful yet often misunderstood features: enums. Whether you're new to programming or looking to deepen ...

Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers repeatedly ...

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 ...

The Java Enum Finder is a Gradle plugin designed to search for usages of specific Java Enum classes in your project's main source. The plugin scans through the source code files to find occurrences of ...

Support for generics has been a long requested enhancement. It eliminates the need to use casts to change the type of a referenced object. Previously, Java collections were typically created to hold ...