@SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"})
public static <T> Comparator<T> reverseOrder ()

Returns a comparator that imposes the reverse of the natural ordering on a collection of objects that implement the Comparable interface. (The natural ordering is the ordering imposed by the objects' own compareTo method.) This enables a simple idiom for sorting (or maintaining) collections (or arrays) of objects that implement the Comparable interface in reverse-natural-order. For example, suppose a is an array of strings. Then:

          Arrays.sort(a, Collections.reverseOrder());
 

sorts the array in reverse-lexicographic (alphabetical) order.

The returned comparator is serializable.

Parameters:

<T>

the class of the objects compared by the comparator

Returns:  A comparator that imposes the reverse of the natural ordering on a collection of objects that implement the Comparable interface.

See also:
Comparable