Attached to the CCC proposal corresponding to this bug report is the latest JSR-201 spec draft for enum types (labeled "Preliminary Proposed Final Draft 2").  There are three substantive changes in this draft:

(1)  All enum constructors are implicitly private.  The compiler should implement this behavior.

(2) The use of the abstract and final modifiers on enum types is prohibited.  The compiler should generate a compile-time error if a program uses either of these modifiers on an enum-type.

(3) It is illegal to reflectively instantiate an enum type.  
Constructor.newInstance() will need new checks. (Class.newInstance() should then behave properly as it is implemented in terms of Constructor.newInstance().)

Will aim for beta2.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2004-03-08