Force Initialization of an enumerated type in Java

Question

I am attempting to find a way to force Java to load/initialize an enumerated type (which is nested within a class that contains a static Map).

This is important to me be

Answer 1

Can't you just put initialization of the map in the static initializer of the Enum type?

public enum SomeEnum
{
    Member1, Member2, Member3 ...

    private static Map map = ...;
    static 
    {
        ...populate map...
    }
    ...

EDIT: It appears that the issue was that the Enum member definitions need to come first. I guess I just glossed over this. I fixed the example.