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 ...

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 ...

In this blog post, I look at the concept of Java synthetic methods. The post summarizes what a Java synthetic method is, how one can be created and identified, and the implications of Java synthetic ...