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 ...

Although it is part of the java.util.concurrent package, the TimeUnit enum is useful in many contexts outside of concurrency. In this post, I look at how the TimeUnit enum can be used even in code ...

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 ...

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 ...

Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Protobuf does not consider the name of the enum as part of the scope, only the package name. This is inconvenient for cases where two enum types have ...