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Java

Posted by okilydokily
okilydokily
12,105 Points

How do collections.sort or array.sort know how to find and apply the appropriate comparable or comparator interface?

I mean how do they link up or wire together. I've never understood this and I think I've had a similar question when I was going through the C# course on Treehouse. Now I obviously don't mean to ask this question when sort takes an anonymous class or some other parameter that provides the needed CompareTo or Compare method directly. I've tried looking at API pages but that was above my knowledge level.