3 basic, cardinal, elementary, fundamental, key, primary, rudimentary. adv. 4 at the beginning, at the outset, before all else, beforehand, firstly, initially, in the first place, to begin with, to start with. n. 5 as in from the first beginning, commencement, inception, introduction, outset, start, starting point, word go (informal) first-class.
Next we define the enum, which we want to serialize and deserialize to JSON. And then we'll define the class, that uses the SampleEnum. The trick is to use a string as a private property and override its getter and setter, so that: 1  The getter returns the name of the enum value when serializing it.
Java Enums. A Java Enum is a special Java type used to define collections of constants. More precisely, a Java enum type is a special kind of Java class. An enum can contain constants, methods etc.Java enums were added in Java 5. Java Enum is a special Java type used to define collections of constants. More precisely, a Java enum type is a special kind of Java class. An enum can contain constants, methods etc. Java enums were added in Java 5.