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 the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any ...

The first seven posts of my series of dealing with too many parameters expected in Java methods focused on alternative approaches to reduce the number of parameters a method or constructor expects. In ...