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> Just read your O'Reilly article on enums in Java. I liked your
> solution of automatically creating enum definitions via a .enum
> file. A thought however! Have you looked at writing an Ant
> task to invoke the compiler?

Great idea, Brian! Actually I am fairly new to Ant, and I hadn't thought of it before, but I have placed a revised version of the jEnum.zip file on the article's web site that has this capability. I had to modify the translator slightly to make things work, but that may have just been a problem with my understanding of Ant. FYI, the Ant task that does the work looks like the following:

    <!-- run the jEnum translator the jEnum files -->

    <target name="enum">

        <apply executable="java" dest="${src.dir}">

            <arg value="-jar"/>

            <arg file="${lib.dir}/jEnum.jar"/>

            <arg value="-o"/>

            <fileset dir="${src.dir}">

                <include name="**/*.enum"/>

            </fileset>

            <mapper type="glob" from="*.enum" to="*.java"/>

        </apply>

    </target>