Generic Java

[Timothy Leong]

hi guys,
I'm trying to use generic java
the code below is actually implementation of linked list. It has to insert in ascending order.
How do I handle the bold portion?
I got 2 linked list. Customer and Transaction. Both are requried to insert in ascending order. for customer, sort according to name and for transaction sort according to the date. How do I amend the bold portion?? thanks

   public void insert(E type)
    {
        LLNode<E> newNode = new LLNode<E> (type); 
        setNumItems(size()+1);
        if(isEmpty())
            setHead(newNode);
        else
        {   LLNode<E> prev=null;
            for(LLNode<E> curr=getHead(); curr != null; prev = curr, curr=curr.getNext()) 
            {
                [B]if(curr.compareTo(type) > 0)[/B]
                {
                    // insert before curr node
                    newNode.setNext (curr);
                    if (prev != null)
                        prev.setNext (newNode);
                    else
                        setHead (newNode);
                    
                    return;
                } 
            } 
            // insert at end of list
            prev.setNext (newNode);
        }
    }

[ September 22, 2005: Message edited by: Timothy Leong ]

[Layne Lund]

Why do you think the bold portion needs to be changed? What does this code do and how does it differ from what you expect? As you can see from my questions, we need some more details in order to help you fix the problem.

Layne

[Mark Spritzler]

Timothy, you know our policy about duplicate postings. Please do not post duplicate threads. You now have three threads with the same question. Two in this forum and one in the Intermediate forum. I am going to close both that are in this forum and leave it in the Intermediate forum.

Mark