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 have the same need and use a generic method (inside an ArrayUtils class):

public static  String[] toStringArray(T[] array) {
    String[] result=new String[array.length];
    for(int i=0; i

And just define a STATIC inside the enum...

public static final String[] NAMES = ArrayUtils.toStringArray(values());

Java enums really miss a names() and get(index) methods, they are really helpful.