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Message: [QUOTE="richnjones, post: 3139299"] Hello all, I was messing around with enums and am confused about the modifiers I can apply. I am using Eclipse and am not sure if I am misunderstanding the error. Consider this enum enum Planets {Mercury, Venus} I can put private/protected/public in front of it. At the moment I consider it to have package access. This makes perfect sense I can also add static in front of it. Enum is a class that extends Object so that kind of makes sense. However I cannot add final in front of it. Now I dont believe you can extends enums (why would you want to) so having final might seem a little pointless but i do not see why you cannot have it for completeness. (You can add final to variables in Iiterfaces which are implicitly final) Also and more confusingly when I put final in front of it then Eclipse says it is an invalid modifier and that I can only have private/protected/public/ abstract/static. When I put abstract in front I get a compile error. Is Eclipse wrong? Can you put an abstract in front of enums in some cases? Is there any reason you cannot put final in front? (Assuming you can use abstract then i can see why final isnt allowed). What use would an abstract have? abstract enum Planet {Mercury, Venus} //does not compile Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks R [/QUOTE]