I (as a Java developer) use state machines often - and know other developers who do same too. I use mostly enums (though there are other ways of achieving it),

I (as a Java developer) use state machines often - and know other developers who do same too. I use mostly enums (though there are other ways of achieving it), as explained in this post: Java Secret: Using an enum to build a State machine: http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/06/java-secret-using-enum-as-state-machine.html http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/06/java-secret-using-en...