Tag Archives: enumerated type

Consider the following example which defines an enum type with three constant values. The next–and admittedly somewhat contrived–example calls a constructor to associate an integer value with each enum constant. But how about if we wanted to override  getNum() for … Continue reading →

This example program has two source files (Demo.java and Bucket.java) and demonstrates use of an enum type with a constructor, instance variable, and public method. Demonstration class:

The following example shows a Java enum type in its simplest form. To associate a Celsius value with each enum value, we could do this: The above example uses a constructor with a single argument, but the following example shows how we … Continue reading →

Here’s my solution to write a Card and Deck class using Java enumerated types (enum type) to represent the suit and rank of each card. Funnily enough, I had more problems remembering the names of the suits and ranks than … Continue reading →

The Java compiler adds special methods to an enum type when it is created, one example of which is the values method. This is a static method that returns an array of all values declared in an enum type. The … Continue reading →

In Java, the enum declaration declares a class called an enum type. The following code shows a very simple enum type for days of the week. We cannot instantiate an enum type directly, but we can create variables of that … Continue reading →