Description Sasa Zivkov 2003-08-25 17:40:32 EDT

Hi,

When the example given bellow is compiled with the Java compiler from
the Eclipse 3.0 M2 then the static members in MyEnum class do not get 
initialized i.e. the last line prints "null".
When compiled with the standard java compiler from JDK (tried 1.3.7,
1.4.0 and 1.4.2) then everything works as expected i.e. the last line
prints out "A".
Compilers in older versions of Eclipse also work as expected.

Example:


import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

class Enum {
	private String name;
	private static Map nameToInstance = new HashMap();
	protected Enum(String name) {
		nameToInstance.put(name, this);
		this.name = name;
	}
	public static Enum getFromName(String name) {
		return (Enum) nameToInstance.get(name);
	}
	public String toString() {
		return name;
	}
}

class MyEnum extends Enum {
	private MyEnum(String name) {
		super(name);
	}
	
	public static MyEnum A = new MyEnum("A");
}

public class TestStaticMembers {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
		Class c = MyEnum.class; // now MyEnum class should be loaded 
and static members initialized 
		System.out.println(c.getName());
		Enum e = Enum.getFromName("A");
		System.out.println(e); // should print A
	}
}