Advice for using patterns

Hello all,
I need suggestions from you all regarding the usage of bridge pattern in my problem. My xml file contains an element which when read gives the datatype like varchar , longint. etc..... for each of these i want to give them java types. Like in place for varchar i want to use string. my java class file uses these many times. so i want to create another class where all these mappings will be present. These mappings will be 2 dimentional.... like i should be able to define my datatype also according to defferent databases like db2, oracle etc.
These mappings will help me reduce redundancy in my java code for reading the types .... coz otherwise there will be too many if else statements to replace each datatype name with my defined string.
i want to use bridge pattern for this. please someone help me to implement it for my above problem.
thanks

i want to use bridge pattern for this. please someone
help me to implement it for my above problem.What kind of help do you need? It strikes me a little unusual that you would think you want or need the bridge pattern without knowing how to implement it. Generally, you'd learn a pattern first, then recognize a place whereby you could apply its principles, not the other way around...

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