Difference between lang.Enum and util.Enumeration

[Sony Agrawal]

I am confused about the difference between these two Enum...
I could not figure out anything

[Campbell Ritchie]

Completely different.

Enum is the superclass of all enumerated types, implicitly, the same way that Object is the superclass of everything. [Enum does extend Object.]
Enumeration is an interface which is hardly used any more. It is rather like Iterator.

[Sony Agrawal]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Enumeration is an interface which is hardly used any more.

BUt some class methods of javax.servlet.* and javax.servlet.http.* package returns Enumeration STILL.

[Jesper de Jong]

Enumeration has more or less been replaced by Iterator since Java 1.2 (a LONG time ago...). The classes and interfaces in the Java EE packages that you mention were invented before that, so they (unfortunately) still use the old Enumeration interface. Sun doesn't want to change them, because that would make it incompatible with old Java programs.

[Rohit Mehta]

Nice explanation .. thanks.