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Bill Joe Tom

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Answer 3

False. The first time the fillIt method is called in Listing 1 , the TreeSet collection referred to by the incoming parameter named ref is populated with the following names in the following natural order for String objects. The String class implements the Comparable interface, and that is what determines the sorted order in this case.

BILL Bill JOE Joe TOM Tom

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Answer 2

True.

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Answer 1

None of the above.

The output produced by the program shown in Listing 1 is four lines long as shown below. (Note that the bullets shown below do not appear in the actual program output.)

  • Natural ordering
  • BILL Bill JOE Joe TOM Tom
  • Comparator in use
  • Bill Joe Tom

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Complete program listing

Listing 1 . Comparator03.java .
//File Comparator03.java //Copyright 2001 R.G.Baldwinimport java.util.*; import java.io.Serializable;public class Comparator03{ public static void main(String args[]){ new Worker().doIt();}//end main() }//end class Comparator03class Worker{ public void doIt(){Iterator iter; Collection ref;System.out.println("Natural ordering"); ref = new TreeSet();Populator.fillIt(ref); iter = ref.iterator();while(iter.hasNext()){ System.out.print(iter.next() + " ");}//end while loop System.out.println();System.out.println("Comparator in use"); ref = new TreeSet(new TheComparator());Populator.fillIt(ref); iter = ref.iterator();while(iter.hasNext()){ System.out.print(iter.next() + " ");}//end while loop System.out.println();}//end doIt() }// end class Workerclass Populator{ public static void fillIt(Collection ref){ref.add("Joe"); ref.add("Bill");ref.add("Tom"); ref.add("JOE");ref.add("BILL"); ref.add("TOM");}//end fillIt() }//end class Populatorclass TheComparator implements Comparator,Serializable{public int compare(Object o1,Object o2){ if(!(o1 instanceof String))throw new ClassCastException(); if(!(o2 instanceof String))throw new ClassCastException(); //Do an upper-case comparison int result =((String)o1).toUpperCase(). compareTo(((String)o2).toUpperCase()); return result;}//end compare() public boolean equals(Object o){if(!(o instanceof TheComparator)) return false;else return true; }//end overridden equals()}//end class TheComparator

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