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Enum in Java

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/* 
This is to demonstrate how enums are just syntactic sugar. But this is not complete. What about hashValue, equals, compareTo, name, toString?
*/
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package com.example;
 
import java.awt.Color;
 
public final class MyEnum {
    public static final MyEnum ENUM_APPLE = new MyEnum(Color.GREEN);
    public static final MyEnum ENUM_BANANA = new MyEnum(Color.YELLOW);
    private final Color color;
 
    private MyEnum(final Color _color) {
        this.color = _color;
    }
 
    public Color getColor() {
        // OK, because Color is immutable. Otherwise return a clone:
        return color;
    }
}
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public enum MyEnum {
    ENUM_APPLE (Color.GREEN), ENUM_BANANA (Color.YELLOW);
    private final Color color;
    
    private MyEnum(final Color _color) {
        this.color = _color;
    }
 
    public Color getColor() {
        // OK, because Color is immutable. Otherwise return a clone:
        return color;
    }
}

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