Sorting

[divya kundapur]

I have an array 'items' which have objects that need to be compared and sorted, but the array will have objects that are not mutually comparable, how can i make sure the objects which are not mutually comparable be at the end ?

I know the below one does have work when objects are not mutually comparable , should i implement sorting in this case.

Arrays.sort(items, new ItemNameComparator());

[Vinoth Kumar Kannan]

You will have to write a class that implements the Comparator interface and pass that object to Arrays.sort(). So, you must override compare() and equals() methods of Comparator.

[Rob Spoor]

Only compare(). The equals method is used to check if another object is equal to the Comparator itself, and is hardly ever needed for Comparator implementations.