Hidden Features of Java

Answer 1

You can use enums to implement an interface.

public interface Room {
   public Room north();
   public Room south();
   public Room east();
   public Room west();
}

public enum Rooms implements Room {
   FIRST {
      public Room north() {
         return SECOND;
      }
   },
   SECOND {
      public Room south() {
         return FIRST;
      }
   }

   public Room north() { return null; }
   public Room south() { return null; }
   public Room east() { return null; }
   public Room west() { return null; }
}

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EDIT: Years later....

I use this feature here

public enum AffinityStrategies implements AffinityStrategy {

https://github.com/peter-lawrey/Java-Thread-Affinity/blob/master/src/main/java/vanilla/java/affinity/AffinityStrategies.java

By using an interface, developers can define their own strategies. Using an enum means I can define a collection (of five) built in ones.