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 ...

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 ...