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enum Java 1.5 has built-in support for enumerated types. Prior to that you had to kludge them in some way with static final ints (which were not typesafe) or with Objects which would not work in switch statements. Don't confuse enum with the Enumeration interface, an almost obsolete way of iterating over Collections, replaced by Iterator. Java 1.5 enums are references to a fixed set of Objects t..