enum doubt

[dolly shah]

I am taking Whizlabs exams. I got one enum related question. Enum is in the class. They have written in answer description that " enum declared in a class so it is static member of a class". As per I know enum values are static. How can be the enum static? CAn anyone please explain?

[ahmed yehia]

Enum declared inside a class become static member of that class, just like static nested classes. So no instance of the enclosing class is required to create such enum, just class name.

    
public class EnumTest{
enum Numbers { ONE, TWO, THREE }
public static void main(String[] args) {
Numbers num = Numbers.ONE; // create an enum from static
}
}
class OutClass {
EnumTest.Numbers num = EnumTest.Numbers.ONE; // create an enum using class name
}
 

[dolly shah]

Thanks