Instantiate enum class

Question

Consider I am having the following enum class,

public enum Sample {
    READ,
    WRITE
}

and in the following class I am trying to test th

Answer 1

Internally, enums will be translated to something like this

class Sample extends Enum {
    public static final Sample READ = new Sample("READ", 0);
    public static final Sample WRITE = new Sample("WRITE", 1);

    private Sample(String s, int i)
    {
        super(s, i);
    }

    // More methods, e.g. getter
}

They should not and cannot be initialized.