Learn how to use a switch statement in Java to execute different blocks of code based on a variable or expression. Discover the syntax, rules, examples, use cases, advantages, limitations, and new ...

The readability, maintainability, and usability of switch statements and expressions in Java would be improved by a proposal to allow exceptions to be handled in the switch block.

This installment in the Essential Java language features tour addresses the first four small language features from that list — try-with-resources, switch-on-string, multi-catch, and final re ...