The array object in the Java programming language supports a built-in method for sorting objects. An array of strings named "words," for example, can be sorted by calling the "Arrays.sort(words ...

Programmers frequently need to sort elements from a database into a collection, array, or map. In Java, we can implement whatever sorting algorithm we want with any type.

For example, consider a method for sorting an array of integers. You want to sort the array in ascending or descending order, based on comparisons between pairs of array elements.