Sorting

[praneeth ram]

Hi all,

List object contains the bellow information

Praneeth ABC 5 ID Operation
John DEF 6 DI OPeration
Jim XYZ 9 IDS Operation
Praneeth ABC 2 ID2 Operation
Praneeth DEF 3 ID Operation
Jim XYZ 9 IDS Operation
Jim XYZ 4 IDS Operation


now i want to retrive it in the bellow format (all the names should be in order)

Praneeth ABC 5 ID Operation
Praneeth ABC 2 ID2 Operation
Praneeth DEF 3 ID Operation
Jim XYZ 9 IDS Operation
Jim XYZ 9 IDS Operation
Jim XYZ 4 IDS Operation
John DEF 6 DI OPeration

Can anyone suggest the logic .

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

what is your order to sort?

[Harsha Gedala]

The compareTo method of the Comparable interface. Implementing Comparable allows calling Collections.sort. It is always costly process in java to sort. It is usually much preferred to let the database perform the sort using the ORDER BY clause, rather than in code.