http://schneide.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/solutions-to-common-java-enum-problems/ public business secrets Tue, 14 May 2013 22:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://schneide.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/solutions-to-common-java-enum-problems/#comment-7788 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:41:37 +0000 http://schneide.wordpress.com/?p=3769#comment-7788 i’m a beginner to java.. very good article for me.. thanks for sharing..

]]> http://schneide.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/solutions-to-common-java-enum-problems/#comment-7130 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:13:43 +0000 http://schneide.wordpress.com/?p=3769#comment-7130 Yes, you cannot forget them but it is easy to accidentally permute them. For me the readability and understandability outweighs the help by the compiler.

]]> http://schneide.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/solutions-to-common-java-enum-problems/#comment-6992 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:17:59 +0000 http://schneide.wordpress.com/?p=3769#comment-6992 Even though managing state flags as constructor arguments might get cumbersome when there are a lot of them, there is one decisive advantage to it: you can’t forget it. One gets forced by the compiler to supply the arguments.
In the long run it helps when maintaining the system.

]]> http://schneide.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/solutions-to-common-java-enum-problems/#comment-6989 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:58:16 +0000 http://schneide.wordpress.com/?p=3769#comment-6989 Thanks! Didn’t know of. I especially like the noneOf and complement functions.

]]> http://schneide.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/solutions-to-common-java-enum-problems/#comment-6987 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:35:32 +0000 http://schneide.wordpress.com/?p=3769#comment-6987 Final States suggestion could be a little improved by using EnumSet in java. For more details see here: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2010/01/03/fun-enumset and here: http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t16967.html

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