Getting all names in an enum as a String[]

Question

What\'s the easiest and/or shortest way possible to get the names of enum elements as an array of Strings?

What I mean by this is that if, for example,

Answer 1

My solution, with manipulation of strings (not the fastest, but is compact):

public enum State {
    NEW,
    RUNNABLE,
    BLOCKED,
    WAITING,
    TIMED_WAITING,
    TERMINATED;

    public static String[] names() {
        String valuesStr = Arrays.toString(State.values());
        return valuesStr.substring(1, valuesStr.length()-1).replace(" ", "").split(",");
    }
}