Hi all,

I haved evaluated Hibernate as part of my master thesis and just have a question regarding natural sorting of collections. Consider the following (made up) scenario:

<set name="pets"
table="person_pet"
sort="natural">
<key column="person_id"/>
<composite-element class="Pet"/>
</set>

In the book Hibernate in action its described that natural sort will use the compareTo() method of java.lang.String to sort the collection in memory. But i cant seem to find information on which elements are compared to eachother. Are all the elements of Pet, in this case, used? Or is it sorted by the key somehow. I cant find any information on this and would appreciate if anyone could clarify it for me.

Cheers / A.Kikr

PS. This forum is awsome! Cool that the Hibernate team takes the time to answer so many questions. DS.

sort works just like calling java.util.List.sort()

Damn you ppl are fast :-)

Thanks for clarifying!

Hm... nope im still confused. java.util.List has no sort() method and nore does any of the other java collection types that I've looked at either. Am i being really daft here?

Cheers / A.kikr

okay, java.util.Collections.sort() :)

Sweet, thanks mate. Silly of me not to check that.