This is a good look at the dangers of diffusing semantic knowledge in general. His approach is much more true to OOP paradigms. In Java, you can take this a st

This is a good look at the dangers of diffusing semantic knowledge in general. His approach is much more true to OOP paradigms. In Java, you can take this a stop further, and use enums basically as enumerated instances of a class. Example: public enum Stuff { Stuff1(param1), Stuff2(param2); private Object param; private Stuff(Object param){ this.param = param; } public getParam(){ return this.param; } } Now you can call Stuff1.getParam();