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 ...

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...

An enumerated type specifies a set of related constants as its values. Examples include the days in a week, the standard north/south/east/west compass directions, a currency’s coin denominations, and ...

EnumBuilder will generate a full Java enum that requires very little manual editing or post-processing from a CSV file. EnumBuilder can also be used to create a huge, nasty enum with a bazillion ...

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 ...

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 ...