Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /*************************************************************************** * Copyright (C) 2011 by H-Store Project * * Brown University * * Massachusetts Institute of Technology * * Yale University * * * * http://hstore.cs.brown.edu/ * * * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining * * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including * * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, * * distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to * * permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to * * the following conditions: * * * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be * * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF * * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. * * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR * * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, * * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR * * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. * ***************************************************************************/ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; public class Main { public static <T extends Comparable<T>> List<T> sort(List<T> list) { Collections.sort(list); return (list); } public static <T extends Comparable<T>> Collection<T> sort(Collection<T> items) { List<T> list = new ArrayList<T>(items); Collections.sort(list); return (list); } }