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A re-usable library of Java classes. Originally stand-alone, many of the classes have since gone into various parts of the Jakarta Commons project, and thus this package contains various dependencies.

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 * Copyright (c) 2003, Henri Yandell
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package com.generationjava.collections;

import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Hashtable;

/**
 * If the Objects to be compared are known before hand, then this allows 
 * the ordering to be handled via the construction of an Object[].
 */
public class GroupedComparator implements Comparator {

    private Hashtable index = new Hashtable();

    /**
     * Provide an array of Objects that will be compared.
     * The order the Objects are in the array is the order in which 
     * they will be sorted.
     */
    public GroupedComparator(Object[] objs) {
        int sz = objs.length;
        
        for(int i=0; i i2.intValue() ) {
            return 1;
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }

}