Typesafe enums offer a better alternative to Java's traditional enumerated types. Here's how to use typesafe enums correctly in your Java code.

The Java enum is a powerful feature of the language that allows one to elegantly represent finite values and to provide convenient access to characteristics of those finite values.

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...