Question

I would like to reuse safetype enum which I already have to specify argument for @Resource annotation which requires String compile time constant.
I have not found any elegant solution how to reuse DATASOURCE except this that I enclose:

public enum DATASOURCE {
  // Enum constants
  DataSource1, DataSource2;

  public final static String DataSource1_jndi = "java:/jdbc/DataSource1";
  public final static String DataSource2_jndi = "java:/jdbc/DataSource2";

  public String getJndiName() {
    switch(this) {
      case DataSource1:
        return DataSource1_jndi;
      case DataSource2:
        return DataSource2_jndi;
      default:
        throw new RuntimeException("Not defined jndi name for DATASOURCE " + this);
    }
  }
}

Usage of enum itself

public class DataSourceFactory {

  /**
   * @param ds Identifier of datasource
   */
  public static DataSource getDataSource(DATASOURCE ds) {
    // maybe some caching for datasource identified by constant
    ...
    return (DataSource) new InitialContext().lookup(ds.getJndiName());
  }
}

But now I would like to use the same DATASOURCE constant also in SessionBeans along with @Resource annotation

@Stateless
public class SomeSessionBean {
  // This is what I would love to use but 
  // annotation wants compile time constant :-(
  // @Resource(mappedName=DATASOURCE.DataSource1.getJndiName());
  @Resource(mappedName=DATASOURCE.DataSource1_jndi);
  DataSource ds;

  ... 
}

Any idea?

Answer 1

Your solution is fine as it is.