SORT list on items where frequencies are involved

[emgee]

Hi,

I have in a list items looking like this:

Jane (4)
John (7)
Ann (3)
Michael (16)

The result i want to become is this one:

Michael (16)
John (7)
Jane (4)
Ann (3)


How can i solve this problem?

Kind Regards,
emgee

[Fubarable]

Are the data elements objects of a class? In other words do you have a class that holds String name and int frequency? If so, make that class implement the Comparable<T> interface, in the compareTo method, return 1, 0, or -1 depending how the frequency of one object compares to the frequency of this object, and then sort the list using Collections.sort(...).