Java Enums can have behavior?

Question

In Java, an Enum can do the great things that Enums do, but can also have methods (behavior and logic). What advantage does that have over using a class using an enum? Simple ex

Answer 1

Basically, Java enums are classes (I don't believe there is a difference at the bytecode level), with the additional benefit of having a known fixed set of possible instances and being able to use them in switch statements.

You can emulate the "known fixed set of possible instances" with regular classes (the "typesafe enum" pattern described in countless books and articles), but it's quite some work (repeated for every such class) to get it to work really correctly in regard to Serialization, equals() and hashCode(), and perhaps some other things I forgot. Language-level enums spare you that work. And, as mentioned above, only language-level enums can be used in switch statements.