Furthermore, the update seeks to rectify the exclusion of primitive type patterns in the pattern matching for instanceof and switch, which had limited Java's expressiveness.

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).

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 ...