Java: Enum : NoClassDefFoundError

Question

I am facing issues while using enum in my J2EE application. I am using enum in a switch case inside my stateless service bean.

During runtime I see following exception

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue, and the easy workaround was to define the Enum as public instead of private.

(Didn't have time to verify, but my hunch is that this causes the class to not be created as Name$1.class but rather something like Name$Enumname.class, which seemed to be the problem)