Best way to create enum of strings?

Question

What is the best way to have a enum type represent a set of strings?

I tried this:

enum Strings{    STRING_ONE("ONE"), STRING_TWO("TWO") } 

How can I then use them as Strings?

Answer 1

I don't know what you want to do, but this is how I actually translated your example code....

package test;  /**  * @author The Elite Gentleman  *  */ public enum Strings {     STRING_ONE("ONE"),     STRING_TWO("TWO")     ;      private final String text;      /**      * @param text      */     Strings(final String text) {         this.text = text;     }      /* (non-Javadoc)      * @see java.lang.Enum#toString()      */     @Override     public String toString() {         return text;     } } 

Alternatively, you can create a getter method for text.

You can now do Strings.STRING_ONE.toString();