I've just run into a case where a developer on the team forgot to mark an Enum's getter as @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) and the ordinal values of the Enum in question changed.

Needless to say this broke our application.

Is there any way of making the string version the default instead of the ordinal value for safety?

Thanks.
Ashley

Nope sorry, this is the specification default

Ok thanks for the info.

I'll see if I can write some static code analysis to check for this (made a custom Checkstyle check)

Name is actually equally dangerous. There is no perfect answer.