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).

Explore Java's latest feature, Pattern Matching for Switch. Understand its enhancements, including support for any reference type, new case labels, guarded patterns, and more!

The pattern matching feature in Java lets app developers handle complex data structures such as abstract layers and class hierarchies. Here's how it works.

Think you've nailed the basics of Java pattern matching? Keep learning with these Java pattern matching examples involving records, inferred types and generics.

This article, an excerpt from Foundations of JSP Design Patterns (Apress, 2004), describes the View Helper pattern and shows how to build a few useful view helpers that you can add to your own ...

Java’s character and assorted string classes offer low-level support for pattern matching, but that support typically leads to complex code. For simpler and more efficient coding, Java offers ...