Do you need to know how to sort Java objects in a collection, array, or map? Here's how to use the Comparable and Comparator interfaces and avoid ClassCastExceptions.

Comparing using compareTo The first method to comparing two instances is using the compareTo () method that's given to us from the Comparable interface. Here's an example: ...

Compare String using compareToIgnoreCase Similar to compareTo () technique with ignoring case like equalsIgnoreCase () and come back same values as came back by compareTo throughout String comparison.

Using a tuple comparator was the best option indeed. I completely understand the pain with BigDecimal but changing the default behaviour of Tuples equals to use BigDecimal.compareTo is not an option, ...