Getting Started with Enumerated Types

By Brett McLaughlin
2005-04-22

Resources

• Download Tiger and try it out for yourself.

• The official J2SE 5.0 home page is a comprehensive resource you won't want to miss.

• For specifics on Tiger, see John Zukowski's Taming Tiger series, which offers short tips on the additions and changes in J2SE 5.0.

• Brett McLaughlin also contributed a two-part series on annotations in Tiger: Annotations in Tiger, Part 1: Add metadata to Java code; and Annotations in Tiger, Part 2: Custom annotations.

• Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly & Associates; 2004), by Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan, covers almost all of Tiger's newest features -- including annotations -- in a code-centric, developer-friendly format.

• Find hundreds of articles about every aspect of Java programming in the developerWorks Java technology zone

• Visit the Developer Bookstore for a comprehensive listing of technical books, including hundreds of Java-related titles.

Tutorial Pages:
» Represent Constants in a Typesafe Manner Using Java 5.0
» Defining an Enum
» Working with Enumerated Values
» Enums and Collections
» Going Further
» Use Them, But Don't Abuse Them
» Resources

First published by IBM developerWorks

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