How to get an enum value from a string value in Java?

Question

Say I have an enum which is just

public enum Blah {
    A, B, C, D
}

and I would like to find the enum value of a string, for example

Answer 1

Apache's commons-lang library has a static function org.apache.commons.lang3.EnumUtils.getEnum which will map a String to your Enum type. Same answer essentially as Geoffreys but why roll your own when it's out there in the wild already.