Chapter 11

Sorting and Searching

OBJECTIVES
  • To introduce sorting and searching support available in java.util package
  • To introduce all static methods of Arrays and Collections classes for array and list processing
  • To copy an array and fill array with an object using Arrays class
  • To convert an array into a list using Arrays.asList() method
  • To compare two array objects and iterate array elements
  • To sort primitive arrays using Arrays.sort() method
  • To sort primitive object arrays using Arrays.sort() method
  • To sort user-defined object array using Comparable interface with Arrays
  • To sort user-defined object array using Comparator interface with Arrays
  • To explain why do we need both comparable and comparator types
  • To search sorted arrays for a key ...

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