Author Archives: Deepak Anupalli

In my earlier post on enums in Java 5, we have seen that static fields cannot be accessed within the enum constructor. With this restriction we could run into few initialization problems discussed below. The other day Rajiv found it difficult to initialize a static cache during enum bootstrap. The following is his enum: public […]

The new enum construct in Java 5.0 is used to define enumerations. Enumerations are not new to programming languages, they existed in C, C++, SmallTalk etc. In Java 5.0 they had to be introduced to overcome safety and ease of use concerns in using the earlier enumeration approaches. Let us take a look at how […]