Why and what for: java enum

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Published on 2011-01-17T00:58:45Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 3:53 UTC
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Today I was browsing through some question on this site and I found mention of enum being used in singleton pattern and that there are some thread safety benefits to such solution.

I never used enums and I have been programing in java for more than couple a years now. And apparently they changed a lot and now they even do full blown support of OOP within them selfs.

Now why and what for should I used enum in day to day programing?

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