collection to string array possible!

[swetha deshmukh]

can we copy a collection to string array to perform sorting?If so how?Is there any other method to sort the elements in a collection

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

There are a number of static sort() methods in the java.util.Collections class that can be applied to any List object. Otherwise, you can use the toArray() method which every collection has, like this:

String[] strings = (String[]) collection.toArray(new String[collection.size()]);

[Georgy Bolyuba]

Use collection which implements SortedSet, SortedMap. (TreeSet, TreeMap)