Hello Namaste Sathi,
You can "Use the switch statement to conditionally perform statements based on an integer expression".
This means that you can have a short, byte, int or char as an input value, and execute a piece of code based on in input value using the 'case' statement. The advantage to using this over a if/else construct is that a switch statement usually looks better.
You can look at the first example at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html and magine how it would look if you would use an if else statement there.
I hope this made things a little clearer, if not, let me know.
Erik
edit: I also found another link which might be useful:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/supplements/2001/sept01.html#basics [ June 17, 2003: Message edited by: Erik Pragt ]
