> I know. My innocent question was more like: are you sure that the names you > chose in your Converter class cannot clash with user-enums so that they can > safely implement this interface? > to() and from() may already exist because these are common terminology, > whereas toSQLType()/fromSQLType() are unlikely to exist in user enums, and > they can even call them or know what these methods do from their name.
That's life with implementing interfaces... Check out java.lang.Runnable. It ships with run()... Anyway, maybe from() and to() aren't the best choices. I found them somewhat confusing and difficult to explain when writing the Javadoc. So this discussion is maybe not even necessary... ;-)
