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 ...

Many Java developers, including myself, like using the typesafe constant idiom because it provides cleaner code by removing the need to validate whether a constant value is valid or in range. I don’t ...

Q. I'm working on a tool to support my internal framework. This tool needs to include a combo box that contains a list that is specific to a particular project. The framework tool assembly doesn't ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Just how hard is it to perform a JPA or Hibernate enum mapping with either annotations or a ...