This article explores the proposed extension to the Java 12 switch statement that allows it to be used as either a switch statement or a switch expression.

Java 12 arrives with switch expressions to improve coding and allow pattern matching, and raw string literals to simplify multiline expressions ...

With that in mind, in this Java Tip, I present a short program that compiles and runs Java code statements simply by using tools included in Sun’s JDK 1.2 and above.