Category: 5.Enums & Annotations

Enum Anatomy

Better option for declaring constants as provide more functionality than properties files(constructor, mutators, accessors )

  1. Item 34: Use enums instead of int constants
  2. Item 35: Use instance fields instead of ordinals
  3. Item 36: Use EnumSet instead of bit fields
  4. Item 37: Use EnumMap instead of ordinal indexing
  5. Item 38: Emulate extensible enums with interfaces
  6. Item 39: Prefer annotations to naming patterns
  7. Item 40: Consistently use the Override annotation
  8. Item 41: Use marker interfaces to define types
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