Is there an open source java enum of ISO 3166-1 country codes

Question

Does anyone know of a freely available java 1.5 package that provides a list of ISO 3166-1 country codes as a enum or EnumMap? Specifically I need the \"ISO 3166-1-alpha-2

Answer 1

I have created an enum, which you address by the english country name. See country-util.
On each enum you can call getLocale() to get the Java Locale.

From the Locale you can get all the information you are used to, fx the ISO-3166-1 two letter country code.

public enum Country{

    ANDORRA(new Locale("AD")),
    AFGHANISTAN(new Locale("AF")),
    ANTIGUA_AND_BARBUDA(new Locale("AG")),
    ANGUILLA(new Locale("AI")),
    //etc
    ZAMBIA(new Locale("ZM")),
    ZIMBABWE(new Locale("ZW"));

    private Locale locale;

    private Country(Locale locale){
        this.locale = locale;
    }

    public Locale getLocale(){
        return locale;
    }

Pro:

• Light weight
• Maps to Java Locales
• Addressable by full country name
• Enum values are not hardcoded, but generated by a call to Locale.getISOCountries(). That is: Simply recompile the project against the newest java version to get any changes made to the list of countries reflected in the enum.

Con:

• Not in Maven repository
• Most likely simpler / less expressive than the other solutions, which I don't know.
• Created for my own needs / not as such maintained. - You should probably clone the repo.