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How to Sort a Collection

How to Sort a Collection

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An approach for sorting a Java collection can rely on Collections.sort() method as in the following example:

List names = new ArrayList(); names.add("John"); names.add("Alicia"); names.add("Tom");   Collections.sort(names); // sort ascending by name
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