And iirc avoid null values in enums or will throw exception on save. Set a 
default value in the init() method of entity

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On 21/lug/2012, at 18:24, Ramsey Gurley <ramseygur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> For a 'to-one' type of arrangement, enums are perfect so long as your 
> categories don't change often. 
> 
> For a 'to-many' you are describing, they are less so. You could serialize an 
> enum set, but then you can't query it.  The only other solution I know of 
> would be to put them on a table and relate to that… which sorta defeats the 
> purpose of using an enum.
> 
> Ramsey
> 
> On Jul 21, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Tim Worman wrote:
> 
>> WO'ers:
>> 
>> I have an Enitity that I would like to assign n categories to - essentially 
>> descriptive strings. I have never used the javaEnum prototype and I was 
>> wondering if it would be good for this task? On the UI side I would like to 
>> use checkboxes to select which categories to apply to an EO. Then, in the 
>> database have only those selections saved to the database.
>> 
>> Tim
>> UCLA GSE&IS
>> 
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