I'm using `JQuery` to call a `Java Servlet` from multiple places to call multiple different methods within the servlet. At the moment, I pass a string (called methodName) and then using an ever increasing IF ELSE block to see which function to call:

```
public String methodCaller(String methodName) throws SQLException, IOException
{
    if(methodName.equals("method1"))
    {
        return method1(attr("permit"));
    }
    else if(methodName.equals("method2"))
    {
        return method2(attr("ring"));
    }
    else if(methodName.equals("method3"))
    {
        return method3(attr("gridRef"));
    }
    else if(methodName.equals("method4"))
    {
        return method4(attr("ring"));
    }
    else if(methodName.equals("method6"))
    {
        return method6(attr("ring"), Integer.parseInt(attr("quantity")));
    }

```

However, this seems awfully clunky and inefficient to me, especially as the amount of methods will increase in future. Is there a more efficient way to compare the strings? Or should I simply make a separate servlet for each method (and simply do the processing in the `processRequest`?