public void handleParsedCommand(String[] commandArr) {
    if(commandArr[0].equalsIgnoreCase("message")) {
        int target = Integer.parseInt(commandArr[1]);
        String message = commandArr[2];
        MachatServer.sendMessage(target, this.conId, message);
    } else if(commandArr[0].equalsIgnoreCase("quit")) {
        // Tell the server to disconnect us.
        MachatServer.disconnect(conId);
    } else if(commandArr[0].equalsIgnoreCase("confirmconnect")) {
       // Blah blah and so on for another 10 types of command
    } else {
        try {
            out.write("Unknown: " + commandArr[0] + "\n");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed output warning of unknown command.");
        }
    }
}

I have this part of my server code for handling the types of messages. Each message contains the type in commandArr[0] and the parameters in the rest of commandArr[]. However, this current code, while working seems very unelegant. Is there a better way to handle it? (To the best of my knowledge, String values can't be used in switch statements, and even then, a switch statement would only be a small improvement.