Long list of if statements in Java

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Published on 2009-07-29T11:40:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 18:33 UTC
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Hi,

Sorry I can't find a question answering this, I'm almost certain someone else has raised it before.

My problem is that I'm writing some system libraries to run embedded devices. I have commands which can be sent to these devices over radio broadcasts. This can only be done by text. inside the system libraries I have a thread which handles the commands which looks like this

if (value.equals("A") { doCommandA() }
else if (value.equals"B") { doCommandB() } 
else if etc. 

The problem is that there are a lot of commands to it will quickly spiral to something out of control. Horrible to look out, painful to debug and mind boggling to understand in a few months time.

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