What's best for caling business methods ?

Question

Hi,
I developped a swing app with the JMenu Bar. This bar contains the edit, quit, usual options.
I implemented a MVC pattern with a business object whose responsibility is being called by the controllar to do what the user asked through the view.
For instance, if he clicks in the "rename" option, th model renames the selected element. (I go quickly on this part since this is not the interesting point :) )
So to the point.
I got a handler command which receives all commands sendable by the menus. this handler command does this :
private void commonHandler(ComponentEvent e)
          JMenuItem __source = (JMenuItem) (e.getSource());
          Method __method = delegatesList.get(_source);
          if (__source != null)
// do stuff
etc ...
I created the delegatesList which is this :
_delegatesList.put(addNewCdSubMenu, Catalogue.class.getMethod("methodName", null));
_delegatesList.put(addNewCdSubMenu, Catalogue.class.getMethod("othermethodName", null));
So using the JMenuItem as a source, I then retrieve the method and invoke it with reflection.
Question : I think that using plain switch cases with the __source.getName for instance would be simpler.
My question is the following : what is the standard in this kind of stuff : use if/else, switch or delegates like I did or some simpler and more elegant solution ?
Many thanks for your help !

Answer 1

Hi,
I considered that after some thought, the delegates stuff didn't bring any advantage so I hard coded the calls and dropped the reflection part.
I would have loved some insight from a senior developer though :)
bye