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

i'd do it this way (but i'd probably make names an unmodifiable set instead of an array):

import java.util.Arrays;
enum State {
    NEW,RUNNABLE,BLOCKED,WAITING,TIMED_WAITING,TERMINATED;
    public static final String[] names=new String[values().length];
    static {
        State[] values=values();
        for(int i=0;i