Reference

The Swicth Statement

The switch statement only works against char, int, short and byte data types,

switch(intTestValue)
{
  case 1:
    out.println("value one");
    break;
  case 2:
    out.println("value two");
    break;
  case 3:
    out.println("value three");
    break;
  case 4:
    out.println("value four");
    break;
  default:
    out.println("Not recognised");
    break;
}