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Java

by Michael Sikora
January 2003
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
150 pages
7h 28m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 9: Collections
II
9.1.2
Implementing the Comparable Interface
Suppose we have an Employee class, with attributes employee number, name, and salary. We
then create some Employee objects, and then add these to a SorteclSet Collection. To keep
these in a sorted order, we must implement the Comparable interface compareTo method. This
method will define the sort order. The listing shows how we might do this for the Employee
class.
Employee
1 class Employee implements Comparable {
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int empNumber;
String name; ...
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ISBN: 9781558609099