Stop Writing If-Else Spaghetti: Architecting Cleaner Java with the Strategy Pattern

In high-volume, enterprise Java applications, business logic has a natural tendency to degrade into procedural complexity. You start with a straightforward task, such as calculating a discount for a pharmacy claim or evaluating a financial transaction. And before long, the core service method transforms into a multi-hundred-line monolith choked with nested if-else branches and brittle switch statements.