Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is ...

This approach gets the job done but can feel a bit verbose and cumbersome ... and effectively turns the switch statement into an expression that returns a value. Java's pattern matching capability not ...

Some developers define a design pattern as a class-encoded entity (such as a linked list or bit vector), whereas others ... In 1998 Mark Grand released Patterns in Java. This book included design ...