JDK 7: Strings in Switch Statements

Joe Darcy has written an interesting blog post on the implementation of strings in switch statements, one of the changes accepted for inclusion in JDK 7 from Project Coin. The post highlights the steps he went through to modify the language.

If you like playing with the early access releases for JDK 7 you'll soon be able to use strings in switch statements in the milestone 5 release.