1 /**
 2      * Sole constructor.  Programmers cannot invoke this constructor.
 3      * It is for use by code emitted by the compiler in response to
 4      * enum type declarations.
 5      *
 6      * @param name - The name of this enum constant, which is the identifier
 7      *               used to declare it.
 8      * @param ordinal - The ordinal of this enumeration constant (its position
 9      *         in the enum declaration, where the initial constant is assigned
10      *         an ordinal of zero).
11      */
12     protected Enum(String name, int ordinal) {
13         this.name = name;
14         this.ordinal = ordinal;
15     }

 1  /**
 2      * Returns the name of this enum constant, as contained in the
 3      * declaration.  This method may be overridden, though it typically
 4      * isn‘t necessary or desirable.  An enum type should override this
 5      * method when a more "programmer-friendly" string form exists.
 6      *
 7      * @return the name of this enum constant
 8      */
 9     public String toString() {
10         return name;
11     }

 1 public class Size2 {
 2     
 3     public static void main(String[] args) {
 4         A1Size enumEntity = Enum.valueOf(A1Size.class, "SMALL");
 5     }
 6 
 7 }
 8 
 9 enum A1Size {
10     
11     SMALL("S"), MEDIM("M"), LARGER("L"), EXTRA_LARGE("XL");
12 
13     private String abbreviation;
14 
15     private A1Size(String abbreviation) {
16         this.abbreviation = abbreviation;
17     }
18 
19     public String getAbbreviation() {
20         return abbreviation;
21     }
22 
23 }