This week's book giveaway is in the General Computing forum. We're giving away four copies of Arduino in Action and have Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, and Jordan Hochenbaum on-line! See this thread for details.
I found on net regarding difference between sort and order.
sort: To arrange (things, etc.) according to a kind or quality, or after some settled order or system; to separate and put into different sorts or classes.
order: The action of putting or keeping in order.
in order: In proper sequence or succession, according to rank, importance, seniority, size, position, date, affinity, etc.
Ordered : when a collection is ordered it means you can iterate through the collection in a specific order. An ArrayList is ordered by index.
Sorted : when a collection contains objects that are organized according to some rules. A TreeSet is a sorted collection because its elements are organized in ascending order(it has nothing to do with what position it was added at)