Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using == . This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers ...

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 ...